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Protesters toss a puppet depicting President Emmanuel Macron during a demonstration in Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 21, 2023.
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DOZENS of protesters took their opposition to the attack on French pensions by demonstrating at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday.
The government of French President Emmanuel Macron pushed through controversial reforms that raised the country’s retirement age from 62 to 64.
Tomas Ghestem, one of the demonstrators, said: “We are against the retirement reforms which will make many people die at work.”
RITA DI SANTO takes us through the prize winners, and takes the temperature of a festival that prioritised narratives of exile, state violence and class division
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
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