France's Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne at a press conference in Paris to present the government's plan for pension reform on January 10, 2023. Bertrand Guay/Pool/AFP/Getty Images ...

PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 16: Protestors chant against the French Government during demonstrations at Place de la Concorde after the French Government pushed their Pension Reform through France's ...

Nearly 1 million demonstrators poured into the streets across France Saturday, to protest the government’s pension reform plans, which would include raising the retirement age from 62 to 64.

France mass strikes bring a million demonstrators to the streets against pension reform 02:28. Paris — Workers in France held their sixth mass protest Tuesday against a proposed pension reform ...

Article 49.3, invoked by President Macron, allows France to move forward on pension reform without a parliamentary vote. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV Subscribe Subscribe ...

In France, she’d be on the cusp of retirement, with a state-backed pension on its way. Macron’s message to workers like these is simple: You’re going to have to hold on a little longer.

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.

Opponents of French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform failed on Thursday to pass a repeal bill, in their latest effort to maintain the retirement age at 62. Centrist opposition group ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to reporter Lisa Bryant about millions of people participating in strikes disrupting air, train and road travel over the president's efforts to reform the pension system.

France's Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne at a press conference in Paris to present the government's plan for pension reform on January 10, 2023. Bertrand Guay/Pool/AFP/Getty Images ...

Demonstrators demand the repeal of pension reform and higher wages and pensions, in Paris, in October, 2024. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) In his Déclaration de politique générale – the ...