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PARIS, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Flight cancellations were expected in Paris as French air traffic controllers struck to protect jobs they said are threatened by an international treaty.
The strike was scheduled for five days and would result in cancellation of about half the flights in and out of Orly airport and about 25 percent of flights at Charles de Gaulle/Roissy airport, Radio France Internationale reported Wednesday.
The treaty, signed in 2008, would combine the air traffic control services of France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
About 12,000 controllers will be affected by the treaty, the news service said. French Ecology minister Jean-Louis Borloo said he approved of the treaty, but would assemble a commission to study the issue.
"The best protection for our public services is to have this European treaty," Borloo said.
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