Fresh protests in France as government bypasses parliament again to push through labour law

‘France’s Socialist government once again used its emergency constitutional powers to force through a second reading of a controversial labor reform law, which has provoked months of street protests in the country.
“This country is too used to mass unemployment,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls told parliament, as he invoked Article 49 of the French constitution, which allows laws to be approved without a parliamentary vote. “This is not posturing, it’s not intransigence.”’
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