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But, while 2023 was a big year for pension reform and pension reform protests in France, the stand-off between successive governments and unions has been going on for a generation.

In France, there is a pension reform every five or six years, and it is impossible to promise that one of them will be definitive in such an uncertain field. This ambiguity is not a recent issue.

The Economist's France correspondent, and Macron biographer, Sophie Pedder wrote on Twitter: "France needs pension reform. It spends 14 percent of GDP on public pensions, nearly double the OECD ...

The French Socialists are filing a no-confidence measure against Prime Minister Francois Bayrou following failed pension ...

France is braced for another major day of unrest this Tuesday as protesters voice their anger at the govt's deeply unpopular pension reforms. Strikes and demonstrations are taking place across the ...

France's Constitutional Council is due to deliver its verdict on Friday on a deeply unpopular bill which will delay retirement by two years to 64, and on plans for a referendum to challenge it.

01/30/2023 January 30, 2023. A reform of France's pension system is set to push up the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64. The government has said the measures are needed.

The government says the reform is “indispensable” if the pension regime is to balance its books, and France is to preserve its generous pensions, at a time when people are living nearly a ...

Last week, Mr Macron forced the pension reform through the National Assembly without a vote using Article 49.3, a part of the French constitution that enables the government to pass a law without ...

Protests erupt in France after Macron's controversial pension bill raises retirement age 03:50. Opposition lawmakers in France's National Assembly booed and jeered as Prime Minister Elisabeth ...