[AlAhram] French protests against President Emmanuel Macron's pensions overhaul began to run out of steam on Tuesday with lower numbers taking to the streets and leaders questioning the future of the movement.
Good. It’s long past time they stopped letting Antifa bully the government into fiscal impossibilities. Hundreds of thousands of people protested across La Belle France for the 14th day of demonstrations since January to oppose the reform, with some cities seeing angry festivities, but numbers were well down on the peak of the movement.
Macron signed the legislation into law in April, raising the pension age to 64 from 62
Golly. after the government used a controversial but legal mechanism to avoid a vote in parliament on the bill. |