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FRENCH workers delivered a “Black Monday” for President Emmanuel Macron as strike action over pension reforms entered a fifth day, with transport grinding to a halt across the country.
Just 15 per cent of normal train services were running and 10 of Paris’s 16 Metro lines in were shut down, with four offering a limited service.
Unions called the general strike in response to Mr Macron’s latest neoliberal reform, this time an attack on pensions. It comes at the behest of the European Union (EU), which has decimated public-sector pensions across member states as they try and reduce public spending.
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
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
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