{"id":2667,"date":"2007-11-07T06:52:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T11:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2667"},"modified":"2007-11-07T06:52:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T11:52:34","slug":"sarkozy-placates-protesters-for-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2667","title":{"rendered":"Sarkozy placates protesters for the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\">Striking fishermen lift protest blockade<\/font><br \/>\n<strong>By John Lichfield, <em>The Independent<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/europe\/article3135391.ece\">7 November 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was booed and insulted by trawlermen in Brittany yesterday as he attempted to resolve the row before leaving for a two-day trip to Washington. He tried to placate them, saying he was suspending all social contributions by fishermen and fishing-boat owners for six months. He has also asked the fisheries minister, Michel Barnier, to find a mechanism by which the market price for fish could be made to reflect the price of fuel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"4\">France Braced For More Strikes<\/font><br \/>\n<strong>By EURSOC Two | Published: <a href=\"http:\/\/eursoc.com\/news\/fullstory.php\/aid\/2093\/France_Braced_For_More_Strikes.html\">05 November, 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is it about French strikers and the English? Not content with having made getting to the Rugby World Cup final a misery for English fans, striking transport workers look set to disrupt the first Eurostar arrivals to Paris from London&#8217;s beautifully renovated St Pancras station.<\/p>\n<p>A series of open-ended strikes by French civil servants and transport workers is set to make November the cruellest month for commuters and President Nicolas Sarkozy alike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striking fishermen lift protest blockade By John Lichfield, The Independent, 7 November 2007 The President, Nicolas Sarkozy, was booed and insulted by trawlermen in Brittany yesterday as he attempted to resolve the row before leaving for a two-day trip to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-H1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}