'Left behind' workers desert EU socialists for populists


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  • Tuesday, 29 Apr 2014

French President Francois Hollande (R) greets Edouard Martin (L), CFDT labour union representative of Arcelor Mittal Florange blast furnace, during a meeting with the unions and workers at the Arcelor-Mittal headquarters in Florange, September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Nicolas Bouvy/Pool

PARIS (Reuters) - With his square-jawed good looks, easy smile and way with words, Edouard Martin could have been a Hollywood movie star.

But the steel worker and trade union activist who confronted Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande to defend jobs at a doomed blast furnace in Florange in northeastern France has just traded his hard-hat for a politician's suit.

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