The battle against the unpopular pension reform intensified this Friday in France after its controversial adoption by decree, with an increase in protest actions and the presentation of two motions of censure against the government. With the Paris ring road cut for half an hour, high schools blocked, 10,000 tons of garbage accumulated in the […]
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France: clashes in protests against the change of the pension system | PHOTOS
For the second day in a row, France is the scene of violent protests. The reason? President Emmanuel Macron seeks to raise the retirement age without a vote in the National Assembly. Just one day after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne invoked a special constitutional power to circumvent a vote in the chaotic lower house, lawmakers […]
Paris accumulates 10,000 tons of garbage in its streets for protest
Ten thousand tons of garbage accumulated this Friday in the streets of Parisin the context of a strike by garbage collectors against the liberal president’s unpopular pension reform Emmanuel Macronindicated the mayor’s office. The new estimate, up from 7,600 tons earlier in the week, comes after Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the requisitions of strikers […]
Pension reform in France enters its crucial week
The reform of the pensions in France of the liberal president Emmanuel Macron enters this week in the final stretch, with an expected final vote on Thursday despite the popular and union rejection that called for new protests for Wednesday. “We will not give up on our pension reform“, that “It is called to be […]
French Senate approves Macron’s pension reform after days of protests
The Senate French has approved this Saturday, with 195 votes in favor and 112 against, the unpopular pension reform plan of the president Emmanuel Macrona bill whose key measure is to delay the retirement age by two years, to 64 years. The upper house of the French Parliament voted on the text after a seventh […]
New mass protests in France challenge Macron’s pension reform
Hundreds of thousands of people protested again on Tuesday in the streets of France against the pension reform of President Emmanuel Macron, determined to approve it in Parliament despite growing popular rejection. The two measures that crystallize the discontent are the progressive delay until 2030 of the retirement age from 62 to 64 years and […]