On the point of "the eu protects workers rights" that gets raised a lot.
Whats the EU doing to protect french workers against the changes the government is trying to impliment now?
What would you expect them to do? Frances current work week is well below EU safeguards and they want to revise it to something still well below EU safeguards.
Changing a standard 30 hour week to 35 hour isn't going to cause problems vs the EU 48 hour maximum limits.