The performance gap; France's economy  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 404 no. 8803 (Sep. 2012), page 53-54.
Topik: Politics; Economic Policy; Government; Employment; Private Sector

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The end of the early shift, and workers at the Peugeot car factory at Aulnay-sous-Bois, near Paris, are streaming out through the turnstiles. The anger is raw; the disappointment crushing. In July, when the company announced that the plant, which employs 3,000 workers, was to close, President Francois Hollande loudly branded the decision "unacceptable". Two months and an official report later, his government has now accepted its fate. "Hollande said that he would look after us," says Samir Lasri, who has worked on the production line for 12 years: "Now we regret voting for him." The decision by Peugeot-PSA, a loss-making carmaker, to shut its factory at Aulnay, the first closure of a French car plant for 20 years, and to shed 8,000 jobs across the country has rocked France. It has become an emblem both of the country's competitiveness problem and of the new Socialist government's relative powerlessness, despite its promises, to stop private-sector restructuring. Tough as it is for the workers concerned, the planned closure may have had at least one beneficial effect: to jolt the country into recognizing that France is losing competitiveness and that the government needs to do something about it.

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