Macron is set to charge ahead with controversial and unpopular plans to raise the retirement age on Tuesday 👉 Unions have warned France could face a bigger crisis than the unruly ‘gilets jaunes’ street protests that erupted four years ago
The pension reform is set to be the single biggest legislative act of Mr Macron’s two terms in office and its fate could determine his authority in the Elysée.
Thousands of people demonstrated for several weeks in 2019 against the French government’s plans to overhaul the country’s retirement system Mr Macron already pledged in his New Year’s Eve address that he would push ahead with the plans, saying: “This year will be the year of reform to the pension system which aims to balance our system for the years and decades to come. “We need to work more.”
Mr Macron’s government has met with key union groups in an attempt to mollify them and offer concessions but to little avail.
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