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Jacques Attali

Zeinab Badawi meets Jacques Attali, President of Commission for French Economic Growth, who is attempting to resolve tensions in French suburbs.

There are tensions in the suburbs in French cities; the country has high unemployment, low growth and the shortest working week in Europe. President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked Jacques Attali, a prominent left-of-centre thinker and President of Commission for French Economic Growth, to come up with a plan of action. Zeinab Badawi asks him why his blueprint for reform should work when others have failed.

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