One swallow
AFTER a French winter of discontent, comes a hint of spring. The economy is starting to pick up. The seemingly inexorable rise in unemployment is slowing. Taxes, having reached a record high, are at last dropping. Interest rates are at their lowest level in 35 years. Trade is booming. Business morale is less flat. Even President Jacques Chirac and Alain Juppé, his Gaullist prime minister, are finally edging their way up from their previous abysmal depths in the opinion polls.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “One swallow”
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