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Workers demonstrate in Nantes, western France.
Picture date: March 28, 2023
PROTESTS and strikes against President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reforms brought France to a standstill again today.
Police were out in force following violent clashes between officers and demonstrators at previous rallies against Mr Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age in France from 62 to 64.
The French president used a special constitutional power earlier this month to ram the reform past legislators without allowing a vote.
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
