A French student holds a flower behind the shield of of a riot policeman during a protest against the government's new plan for reducing joblessness in Lille, northern France March 30, 2006. The fate of a contested French labour law, known as CPE, that has inspired massive protests, gravely wounding its champion Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, hung Thursday on a council of experts. The Constitutional Council was weighing a demand from the opposition Socialists that the law be thrown out as unconstitutional.

30 Mar 2006 REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol