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De Gasquet, Pierre
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Is Europe's strike culture a thing of the past?
With an eye to current protest movements, Pierre de Gasquet analyses the culture of strikes in France and Europe over the past twenty years: "Today the railworkers, yesterday the cashiers and fishermen, tomorrow the truck drivers and illegal workers. ... If you consider all these protest movements together, you could be excused for thinking France was once more harking back to the major social struggles of May and June 1968 with their record nine million strikers. But the opposite is the case. Official statistics show the number of strikes has sunk markedly in the last twenty years, in France and practically the whole of Europe. ... Nevertheless, the strike is far from dead. ... The decline of the strike in its traditional form - generally connected to job uncertainty and the weakening of unions - is not a sign of the atrophying of social conflicts. ... It would be wrong to think that the movements of June 2008 were only a pale copy of [the strikes of 1968]. The changes in the strike culture do not necessarily mean the end of the combat zone."
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The success of Blairism in France
"There is something paradoxical about seeing Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal fight over Tony Blair's spoils at the same time as the Prime minister is being shown the way out by his brethren, half way through his third mandate", remarks Pierre de Gasquet in an analysis. "Why is Blairism suddenly selling better in export than on its own market? No doubt because the champion of New Labour - even if these days he finds himself being cut off from part of his own family - is still rightly perceived as a reformer in the field of political communication... By presenting themselves as declared sympathisers of Blairite pragmatism, Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal no doubt hope to distinguish themselves from all sectarianism by giving themselves a 'modern' image. Even if this means incurring accusations of ideological zigzagging and unclear discourse."
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