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Protests in France radicalize: Pollster and sociologist Hugo Touzet observes how forms of organized strike and spontaneous rallies are increasingly mixed ...
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Protests in France radicalize
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French President Macron says he hears people's anger but insists pension change was needed
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French President Macron says he hears people's anger but insists ...
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Macron's controversial pension reform takes its place in French law: Key aspects of Emmanuel Macron's bitterly contested pension reforms came into force on ...
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Macron's controversial pension reform takes its place in French law
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Macron Should Stand His Ground: Furious rioters and craven politicians are just plain wrong: France’s broken pension system needs reform now.
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Macron Should Stand His Ground
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Macron Bypasses Parliament Vote on Budget With Maligned Tool: French President Emmanuel Macron is bypassing parliament votes to push ahead with his plans to cut ...
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Macron Bypasses Parliament Vote on Budget With Maligned Tool
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Unions in France are meeting today to decide the next steps in a wave of protests that have swept the country since President Macron's pension reforms were ... Show more
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Macron pension reform ends cherished French exception: French President Emmanuel Macron may have pushed through his unpopular pension reform but only at great ...
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Macron pension reform ends cherished French exception
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Continued anger at retirement age change fuels further protests in France: Hundreds of protesters opposed to the law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 ...
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Continued anger at retirement age change fuels further protests in France
Quick Glance: Continued rage over the retirement age shift fuels new protests in France
  • (AP) — GANGES, France — Hundreds of people protested the new law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in a small hamlet in southern France on Thursday, during President Emmanuel Macron's visit, while sporadic protests were held elsewhere.

  • Dozens of police officers were stationed in the small town to prevent demonstrators from approaching the school.

  • Hundreds of people peacefully demonstrated at the Gare de Lyon railway station in Paris on Thursday.

  • Earlier Thursday, protesters in Lille's northern city of Lille walked down the railway line, effectively shutting down all train travel for approximately an hour.
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Macron says Europe must not be 'follower' of US, China on Taiwan: PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview published Sunday that ...
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Macron says Europe must not be 'follower' of US, China on Taiwan
Quick Glance: France requires a moment of healing, says PM, without proposing a tonic
  • 1/2] Protesters carry banners of French labor unions as they walk down a country road in Beauvoir towards the Mont Saint-Michel to block entrance to the renowned tourist spot during a demonstration against the French government's pension reform on April 7, 2023, in the French western region of Normandy, France.

  • PARIS, 7 April (Reuters) - France must "go through a healing period" after weeks of sometimes violent street protests against proposals to raise the retirement age, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said, while she offered no obvious path out of the political crisis.
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Why French workers are fighting to retire at 62: France has a lower minimum retirement age than many of its European neighbors. Here's why protesters and ...
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Why French workers are fighting to retire at 62
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Diners sitting outside at a café in the French city of Bordeaux enjoyed their wine not far from the glow of a raging fire lit by demonstrators protesting ... Show more

Quick Glance: Royal Fakes: Impersonators of King Charles Take Center Stage
  • Mr. Haslett, a longtime impersonator of the queen's eldest son, Charles, said he spent more than 5,000 pounds (approximately $6,200) "getting myself to be more kinglike than I was,"

  • Guy Ingle, 62, a longtime Charles impersonator, said he used to stand in the background at events and play second fiddle to Queen Elizabeth impersonators.

  • Guy Ingle, a King Charles impersonator, poses with Prince William and Prince Harry lookalikes before the real Harry's wedding in 2018.

  • The negative publicity surrounding Harry, according to Ms. Scott, could actually benefit King Charles, and thus Charles look-alikes.
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Hundreds of thousands in France protest Macron’s pension law on May Day: May Day protests in France, typically raucous, are larger than usual this year amid rage ...
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Hundreds of thousands in France protest Macron’s pension law on May Day
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Hundreds of thousands of French protest Macron reforms on May Day: Normally raucous May Day protests across France are expected to be even larger this year amid ...
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Hundreds of thousands of French protest Macron reforms on May Day
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Macron Tells Protesting Unions Pension Reform Is Unavoidable: French President Emmanuel Macron told the country’s protesting labor unions in a letter that it’s ...
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Macron Tells Protesting Unions Pension Reform Is Unavoidable
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HAPPENING NOW: Demonstrators in Paris protest President Macron's pension plan. https://abcn.ws/3mVExwx

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French pension protests enter day 14: Fatigue high, thousands remain: French unions hope to reignite resistance to President Emmanuel Macron’s higher retirement ...
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French pension protests enter day 14: Fatigue high, thousands remain
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Your Saturday UK Briefing: Brighter Days Ahead for Economy, Sunak: Follow us at @BloombergUK and on Facebook, and wrap up your day with The Readout newsletter ...
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Your Saturday UK Briefing: Brighter Days Ahead for Economy, Sunak
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Paris Garbage Workers to Resume Strike April 13 Over Pension: Garbage workers in Paris said they would resume their strike on April 13 against French President ...
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Paris Garbage Workers to Resume Strike April 13 Over Pension
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Nearly 1 million French march in 4th day of national protests against pension changes
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Nearly 1 million French march in 4th day of national protests against ...
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France’s Macron Loses Voters to Le Pen’s Far Right in Ifop Poll: Marine Le Pen’s far-right party has been the biggest beneficiary of French discontent over ...
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France’s Macron Loses Voters to Le Pen’s Far Right in Ifop Poll
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Energy workers in France threaten power cuts over retirement age: France's energy union has threatened mass power cuts over Emmanuel Macron's plans to ...
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Energy workers in France threaten power cuts over retirement age
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How French pensions will change on September 1st: Pension reform led to months of strikes and the biggest protests since 1968, but in the end Emmanuel Macron ...
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How French pensions will change on September 1st
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Blocking the Louvre Won't Defuse Pensions Bomb: Demographic denial is the new climate denial.
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Blocking the Louvre Won't Defuse Pensions Bomb
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France: Constitutional Council scraps pension referendum bid: The council turned down yet again an opposition proposal to cap the age of retirement at 62 ...
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France: Constitutional Council scraps pension referendum bid
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Macron Enacts Pension Law After Clearing Constitutional Hurdle: Emmanuel Macron enacted his controversial pension reform on Saturday after clearing a ...
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Macron Enacts Pension Law After Clearing Constitutional Hurdle
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France needs healing period, PM says, without offering tonic: France needs to "go through a healing period" after weeks of sometimes violent street protests ...
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France needs healing period, PM says, without offering tonic
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In Pics: Massive protests in France against Macrons pension reform law: In Pics: Massive protests in France against Macron's pension reform law
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In Pics: Massive protests in France against Macrons pension reform law
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Opponents make last-ditch effort to stop French pension change as protests continue
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Opponents make last-ditch effort to stop French pension change as protests ...
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France would enshrine the freedom to choose a "voluntary termination of a pregnancy" in its Constitution under a proposal that President Emmanuel Macron ... Show more

Quick Glance: Macron's France is a tinderbox.
  • This follows two previous national demonstrations of one million people.

  • Opponents, on the other hand, point to how protests and strikes forced President Jacques Chirac to withdraw his pension reform bill in 1995.

  • As a result, he lacks a mandate for pension reform.

  • It is telling that the fiery Jean-Luc Mélenchon is going all out to enlist student unions in his fight.

  • That is difficult to do on a pension issue that will not directly affect them for the next half-century.
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Union activists protest in France in continued resistance to higher retirement age
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Union activists protest in France in continued resistance to higher ...
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Garbage collectors in Paris and other French cities continue to strike, protesting President Macron's decision to raise France's retirement age ... Show more

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Pots and pans clang anew in France against Macron's pension law: Saucepan protests have become a popular way to voice anger at a resented new law raising ...
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Pots and pans clang anew in France against Macron's pension law
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Parisian streets are piling over with garbage amid retirement age strike: Sanitation workers entered their ninth day of strike on Tuesday, and their absence is ...
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Parisian streets are piling over with garbage amid retirement age strike
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Third wave of French pension protests keeps pressure on Macron: Public transport, schools and refinery supplies in France were disrupted on Tuesday as trade ...
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Third wave of French pension protests keeps pressure on Macron
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French Workers Erupt Again to Fight Macron's Assault on Pensions: For the third time in less than a month, hundreds of thousands of workers across France ...
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French Workers Erupt Again to Fight Macron's Assault on Pensions
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Major strikes are taking place again in France today after the government announced plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 ... Show more

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France's Les Republicains party sacks deputy leader: France's conservative right-wing Les Republicains party on Saturday sacked Aurelien Pradie as deputy party ...
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France's Les Republicains party sacks deputy leader
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Pension reform opponents in France fail to pass repeal bill: Macron's centrist party allied with the conservative Republicans to push back the ...
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Pension reform opponents in France fail to pass repeal bill
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French Strikes Escalate Campaign Against Macron’s Pension Overhaul: Workers push back against president’s plan to raise retirement age
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French Strikes Escalate Campaign Against Macron’s Pension Overhaul
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In France, students prove an unlikely ally in protests against pension reform: Millions of people in France took to the streets this week for the 10th protest ...
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In France, students prove an unlikely ally in protests against pension ...
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Rubbish mounts in Paris as pension row rumbles on: As France faces another day of strikes over highly contested pension reforms, the accumulation of rubbish in ...
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Rubbish mounts in Paris as pension row rumbles on
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More than a million protesters, chanting slogans like “retirement before arthritis,” took to the streets throughout France to protest President Emmanuel ... Show more

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'The Movement Has Spread': Strikes Across France Aim to Block Macron Attack on Pensions
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Breaking news: A top French court on Friday approved controversial legislation to raise the retirement age, clearing the way for the change to become law ... Show more

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France Faces Fifth Day of Pension Protests Before Two-Week Truce: French unions will hold a fresh day of strikes on Thursday in a final test of opposition to ...
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France Faces Fifth Day of Pension Protests Before Two-Week Truce
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Massive nationwide strike hits France over pension reform: More than a million join protests against French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to push retirement ...
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Massive nationwide strike hits France over pension reform
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French court approves Macron’s plan to raise retirement age: The Constitutional Council decides in favour of key provisions of French president’s pension reforms ...
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French court approves Macron’s plan to raise retirement age
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The Older Workers of France Need a Revolution: Macron’s labor reforms aim to combat ageism by employers — and make working longer less objectionable.
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The Older Workers of France Need a Revolution
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Over 1 million French workers strike against effort to raise retirement age: French President Emmanuel Macron plans to increase the age of retirement from 62 to ...
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Over 1 million French workers strike against effort to raise retirement ...
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Macron Digs In as Hostility to French Pension Reform Mushrooms: Opposition to Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age is swelling ...
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Macron Digs In as Hostility to French Pension Reform Mushrooms
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Mini-victory for Macron as French Senate approves raising retirement age to 64: Mini-victory for Macron as French Senate approves raising retirement age to 64
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Mini-victory for Macron as French Senate approves raising retirement age ...
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French Unions Say Country in Crisis as PM Defends Pension Plan: French unions said they walked out of a meeting with Elisabeth Borne on Wednesday aimed at easing ...
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French Unions Say Country in Crisis as PM Defends Pension Plan
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Macron’s Government Sets Road Map to Move Past Pension Debacle: French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne outlined plans for labor and green industry overhauls in ...
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Macron’s Government Sets Road Map to Move Past Pension Debacle
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Garbage piles up as French strike nationwide over pension change: French people hoping to preserve their retirement benefits took to the streets in a nationwide ...
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Garbage piles up as French strike nationwide over pension change
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Protesters in France urge Macron to scrap pension reform plans: Demonstrators took to the streets in cities across France urging the government not to raise the ...
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Protesters in France urge Macron to scrap pension reform plans
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Nearly 1 Million March Against 'Unjust and Brutal' Plan to Raise French Pension Age
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France braced for further protests ahead of retirement age ruling: Armed police were deployed outside France’s Constitutional Council on Friday ahead of a ruling ...
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France braced for further protests ahead of retirement age ruling
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French Pension Strikes: The Party Is Ending for Retirees: All advanced economies face demographic strains, but France’s stand out; now President Macron wants to ...
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French Pension Strikes: The Party Is Ending for Retirees