Posted on 10/16/2010 7:07:26 AM PDT by GonzoII
France is mired in yet another day of strikes after almost a week of disruption and protests aimed at derailing unpopular pension reform plans.
Air France has been forced to cancel some flights from Paris after runway technicians at Orly airport downed tools.
Oil refinery workers have shut down a fuel pipeline supplying the French capital. Transport ministry officials say Charles de Gaulle airport could run-out of fuel within days.
Police have dispersed blockades at fuel depots in the south of the country. All of France’s 12 refineries have shut down or reduced operations because of the strikes.
Crude imports have been blocked at the major ports of Le Havre, Marseille and near Nantes.
In Marseille rubbish has been piling-up in the narrow streets with refuse workers refusing to make their collections. Heaps of waste are proving to be both health and fire hazards as youths turn them into bonfires.
More demonstrations are planned for Tuesday.
Copyright © 2010 euronews
Tags: France, Fuel, Strike
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We want free houses,food and health care.Oh,wait,this article isn’t about the U.S.!
France to get special early retirement.
My husband is scheduled to fly home from Europe through Paris (CDG) on Wednesday. I hope he makes it home.:-(
Fire their derierres and hire replacements.
Third-world ,islamized and socialist france is certainly an Obama’s model !
As i can hear and see here,in France, hard-core leftists and african and arab immigrants are joining together for more and more wellfare state with no regard and concern about reallity....They are using violence to force the elected government to cancel the law just voted by the parliament....
Thank God for the Unions!/SARC
You think they'd done a little better of a job designing the building named after their national hero. What a dump.
In the case of France, it’s not just a corrupt elite, but the entire population which is on a self-destruction path.
He might want to reroute through Zurich. THey came through for us during the F’ing Ash Cloud last Spring, when all other airports had ground to a halt.
He might want to reroute through Zurich. THey came through for us during the F’ing Ash Cloud last Spring, when all other airports had ground to a halt.
I just spoke with him. He’s flying home from Munich through CDG and hoping that the international flights will be given a decent priority as far as fueling is concerned.
Good idea. At least he’ll have great food should he be stranded. And no strikes in Germany. And chocolate ...
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