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Sarko Backs Down on Public Sector Cuts

Retreats from promise to trim French civil servant rolls by 50%

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 2, 2007 9:28 AM CDT

(Newser) – Nicolas Sarkozy has backed down from a campaign pledge to reform the sclerotic French civil service, says the Telegraph. The government has scuppered the president's vow to halve the number of civil servants, which Sarkozy had made a central feature of his policy of "... Read full story »

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