PARIS (Reuters) - At first sight, France looks like it's up to its old tricks.
Angry trade unionists are disrupting public transport, burning tyres and manning picket lines over a government plan to reform labour laws. Yet their ability to shut down swathes of the economy and force ministers to back down is not what it used to be, and reforms are slowly changing the French landscape.
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