down cabinet to focus on voters' main concern -- cutting the unemployment rate of 10.2 percent which helped fuel rejection of the EU treaty and is dragging down economic growth. "It is an absolute requirement of our social pact so that the French people regain confidence in the future," Villepin said on a brief visit to an unemployment office outside Paris. He is to outline his policies to parliament on June 8 and has given himself 100 days to restore voters' confidence. His new government was named against a backdrop of rail chaos as unions from the state rail company SNCF protested over pay and 3,000 job cuts this year. Services were severely disrupted but the Eurostar rail link to Britain was unaffected. --More 2253 Local Time 1953 GMT
