https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault stirred up a hornet's nest on Tuesday when he called for the scrapping of the 35-hour week, a landmark economic experiment adopted by a previous socialist government, before hastily backtracking. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121030/ayrault-flip-flops-over-35-hour-week Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:02:57 +0100 ayrault-flip-flops-over-35-hour-week