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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.

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 ...

France's youth have featured prominently in mass protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s planned pension overhaul, rallying against a reform they consider to be unfair and symptomatic of a ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

What you are touching upon, which is true, is that people have to work a bit longer because they start working a bit later."The reform could yield about $19 billion dollars in pension contributions to ...