The quoteable strikes

"... there is no doubt that the French are cutting their own throats by striking at every opportunity. Last year French railways lost 10 per cent of their freight traffic - more than any other country in Europe - through actions like this... France and Italy are in a headlong economic race to be the sick man of Europe."

- Chris Davies, leader of Britains Liberal MEPs

I'm going to try and find some of the slogans the students have been using, some of them have been really clever. I remember seeing this one at a metro station in Montparnasse - "CPE = Contrat Poubelle Embauche" (poubelle is trash can in French). The graphic had a trash can with the CPE stuffed in it. Trust me, there's about 40 million other acronyms they've come up with as well.