06-06-2016 12:42 via news.yahoo.com

French minister pelted with eggs as strikes lose steam

By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - France's economy minister was pelted with eggs on Monday as a strike against planned labor reforms disrupted rail services for a sixth straight day but appeared to be losing steam. Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron was splattered on the head when militants of the hardline CGT trade union cornered him at a post office in the Paris suburb of Montreuil, where he was launching a stamp to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the "popular front" government that gave Frenc
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