Issued on: 17/04/2023 – 23:39 06:12 After enacting protest-igniting pension reforms, French President Emmanuel Macron aims to calm public anger that threatens the ambitions of his remaining four years in power with a televised address to the nation. The evening address kicks off a likely arduous battle for the second-term president to repair the damage...
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Day 12 Of French Strikes: Europe Braced For Severe Flight Delays
Protesters demonstrate in front of Paris’ Louvre Museum against the French government’s pensions … [+] overhaul. AFP via Getty Images As France poises itself for its next strike on Thursday 13 April (its twelfth one-day strike since the year began), there is growing concern over the wider impact on the rest of Europe—since the year...
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Talking Europe – ‘The pension age cannot be same for everybody’: EU Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights
Issued on: 24/03/2023 – 18:51 Talking Europe speaks to the European Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Nicolas Schmit. With anger growing in France about the government’s push to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64, and the EU facing an ongoing cost-of-living crisis, his portfolio is very much in the spotlight – including recommendations...