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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (17064)9/18/2000 7:20:20 PM
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But the protests have uncovered some interesting quirks of character. Supposedly hot-headed southern Europeans have been noticeably slower to swing into action than their supposedly more reticent northern cousins. In Italy, fishermen have blockaded a few small ports and some lorry and taxi drivers have threatened to protest. But this is a far cry from the direct protests a few years ago over EU milk quotas, when farmers poured rivers of slurry and milk on to motorways to disrupt the economy. Apart from some grumbling about prices, Spanish drivers and farmers have also, so far, been pretty quiet.

Perhaps they are less susceptible to this strain of the French disease. Is there a direct link, these days, between Frenchness and a willingness to take to the street for political ends?

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