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French protest over economy

A million people were estimated to be out on strike in France -- in Paris alone, 85,000 people took to the streets to demand that the government do more to help French workers cope with the recession. Among their demands: better benefits for the low paid; higher taxes for the well paid; and no more job cuts in the public sector. The strikes coincided with the opening of a European Union summit in Brussels -- there, the emphasis was on concerted action to deal with the global slowdown. From Paris, Alastair Sandford reports.

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