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Oil workers on strike block the access to an oil depot in Fos-sur-Mer, southern France, Tuesday, March 21, 2023
PARIS police said today that 234 people were arrested overnight in the capital, mostly for setting fire to rubbish in the streets after parliament failed to bring the government down for raising the retirement age.
President Emmanuel Macron’s government pushed the deeply unpopular Bill through without a vote in the National Assembly last week, causing widespread protests and a narrowly defeated no-confidence vote.
This reflects the emerging twin-track strategy being adopted by opponents of the pensions proposals.
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
