17-02-2015 12:30 via news.yahoo.com

French MPs vote on extending shop opening hours

Millions of tourists in Paris will be able to shop all week long if French MPs pass a controversial set of reforms Tuesday seen as vital to reviving its stuttering economy. Deputies will vote on the highly divisive package of measures drawn up by the country's energetic and youthful banker-turned-economy minister Emmanuel Macron, who says he has received death threats over the reforms. The law is "important for our economy, which bolsters jobs and at the same time protects them,"
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