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France: Strikes costing up to $560 million per day (AP)

People walk by rubbish piled in a street of Marseille. President Nicolas Sarkozy's government warned that strikes against pension reform have cost up to three billion euros and threaten to derail France's still fragile economy recovery.(AFP/Anne-Christine Poujoulat)AP - France’s massive strikes are costing the national economy up to euro400 million ($562 million) each day, the French finance minister said Monday, as workers continued to block ports, oil refineries and trash incineration plants to protest a plan to raise the retirement age to 62.


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