French President Francois Hollande (R) and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault leave a meeting with French government members about government plan to simplify administrative bureaucracy at the Elysee Palace in Paris October 23, 2013. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
PARIS (Reuters) - French football clubs will stage a strike at the end of next month in protest at a controversial super tax on player salaries in an escalation of a row over president Francois Hollande's tax policy.
The strike is the latest blow to Hollande, whose government is already suffering from record low popularity ratings because of high unemployment and internal bickering over everything from immigration to economic policy.
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