Brussels, 22/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - Last week, the American IT group, Hewlett-Packard, announced its decision to do away with some 6,000 jobs by 2008 in Europe, including 1,240 in France. Reacting to this decision, President Chirac called on his government to refer the matter to the European Commission (see EUROPE 9032 for President Barroso's reaction).
Acknowledging that massive job losses would have a destabilising effect, the Commissioner for Social Policy, Vladimir Spidla, was of the...