Truckers in France protest high fuel prices

French truck drivers demonstrate close to the airport of Nice, southern France, Monday, June 30, 2008, as they protest against rising fuel costs. France takes over the presidency of the 27-nation European Union on Tuesday as the EU facing slowing growth, rising inflation and soaring fuel prices. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau) PARIS -- Truck drivers protesting soaring fuel prices have slowed highway traffic outside Paris and other French cities. Labor union officials say 40 protests nationwide are designed to win reductions in gasoline taxes and other government measures to offset rising world fuel prices. France's traffic information center says truckers who were driving at a snail's pace brought highway traffic to a near-standstill on highways around the French capital. Protesters also blockaded highways in the southeastern... [read full story]