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Apr 13, 2023 · Protests have continued to roll across France as a new law pushed by President Emmanuel Macron to raise the legal retirement age to 64, from 62, comes up for constitutional review amid...
- Aurelien Breeden
Over 200 demonstrations were reported in the country. [38] More than one million people took to the streets in Paris and other French towns as part of countrywide protests over proposals to raise the retirement age. [39] Eight of the largest unions participated in the strike over pension reforms. [40]
- 8:25Pm: French Unions Call For New Nationwide Strikes, Protests on January 31
- 7:21Pm: More Than 1 Million Protesters Across France, Interior Ministry Says
- 6:44Pm: ‘More Than 2 Million’ Protesters in France, Union Head Says
- 6:32Pm: ‘Things Getting Slightly More Tense’
- 5:48Pm: Tear Gas in The Air by Paris’s Bastille
- 5:34Pm: Some 400,000 Protesters in Paris, Union Says
- 5:22Pm: French Fear They Will Have to Work ‘Up Until Death’
- 5:03Pm: ‘Will I Ever Even Be Able to Benefit from Retirement?’
- 4:27Pm: Paris Police Make First Arrests, Use Tear Gas
- 4:11Pm: Macron Vows to Press Ahead with Reform Despite Protests
French unions have announced new nationwide strikes and protests on January 31 against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to raise the retirement age. Eight leading unions held a meeting Thursday after their first day of mass protests against the plan, and issued statements vowing to push on with their action to try to get the government to back dow...
Around 1.12 million people are estimated to have taken part in France’s nationwide protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s contested pension reform, which will raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, the interior ministry said. In Paris, the ministry said some 80,000 people are estimated to have protested. The CGT trade union has estimated the...
Philippe Martinez, the head of France’s CGT trade union, said that “more than two million” people took part in Thursday’s protests against the government’s pension reform plans. The French interior ministry has not yet issued its estimate, but it is likely to be much lower. The vast majority of the near 200 protests that were held across France dur...
In Paris, where tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets, FRANCE 24’s senior reporter Catherine Norris-Trent said things were now “getting slightly more tense” as the procession had reached the capital’s Place de la Bastille and the sun was setting. “We’ve been hearing several loud detonations that could be tear gas canisters," she sai...
FRANCE 24’s reporter Lou Roméo says the Paris procession has now reached Bastille, where the smell of tear gas and the sound of loud whistles are filling the air.
Some 400,000 have taken to the streets in Paris to protest the government’s pension reform, according to an estimate provided by the CGT trade union on Thursday afternoon. Authorities have not yet issued an estimate, however.
FRANCE 24’s senior reporter Catherine Norris-Trent explains why the French, whose current retirement age – 62 – is one of the lowest in the industrialised world, are resisting the reform with its two-year age extension so much. “They fear that further raising of the retirement age will come after that,” she said. “They see this as […] an erosion of...
The Paris rally is now en route to its destination, Nation, in eastern Paris. FRANCE 24 spoke to Farid, a ride-hailing app chauffeur, who came to the protest with his daughter. “We’re demonstrating for her, she’s four, and for us and for our parents!,” he said. “I started working when I was 16, and now I’m 37 – when is it going to stop? Will I ever...
Police have already arrested 20 people on the sidelines of the protest in Paris, French daily Le Monde reports, whose reporter Pierre Bouvier also says officers have used teargas to try to calm the situation down. According to AFP, members of the anarchist Black Bloc movement, have thrown rubbish bins, bottles and smoke bombs at police. In the twee...
French President Emmanuel Macron, who is in Spain Thursday, did not seem to be buoyed by the massive protests back home, telling a press conference that the reform “is just and responsible”, and that France “must carry this out”. Macron urged the French to demonstrate peacefully and to avoid any violence or vandalism.
Jan 19, 2023 · PARIS (AP) — At least 1.1 million people protested on the streets of Paris and other French cities Thursday amid nationwide strikes against plans to raise the retirement age — but President Emmanuel Macron insisted he would press ahead with the proposed pension reforms.
Mar 7, 2023 · An estimated 1.28 million took to the streets across France on Tuesday, March 7, against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030 while...
Mar 7, 2023 · News | Explainer. Pension reform protests in France: What you need to know. Unions have pledged to continue protesting against proposed changes, including raising the retirement age from...
Mar 24, 2023 · The authorities put the number of people on the streets at 1.1 million, while unions said it was about 3.5 million. In a major embarrassment to the French president, a planned state visit by King...
