Clément Beaune calls for “social agreements which provide for Olympic truces” “We cannot afford in France to have Olympic and Paralympic Games which give this image of paralysis,” said the former Minister of Transport. “The whole country wants there to be no strikes” during the Games, Civil Service Minister Stanislas Guerini insisted last Saturday.

The first French union, Unsa, also indicated that it was not currently calling for strikes in the public service during the Olympics.