Flares illuminate the darkness at the end of a demonstration against cuts to public pensions in Paris
AIDES to French President Emmanuel Macron briefed that he was ready to make concessions as mass strikes against his pensions cuts continued today.
Most public transport was closed in Paris and the Ile de France area, while the SNCF state railway was running just one in four trains.
Though the movement had mobilised for mass demonstrations on Tuesday — bringing more than 600,000 people onto the capital’s streets and 1.8 million nationwide — pro-strike demonstrations today in Paris still attracted 72,000 people.
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
