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Showdown on the streets : here's looking at France (Part 2)

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Are the French lazy? No but street protests over raising the retirement age show a penchant for protest that’s engrained. Joining François Picard in The France 24 Debate are Time Magazine’s Don Morrison, British journalist Stephen Clarke, Ana Navarro-Pedro, Paris correspondent for Portuguese newsmagazine Visão and Paris-based writer and filmmaker Vijay SINGH.

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Program prepared by Perrine Desplats and Yi Song.

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