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.

AP 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.

Protesters on the tracks at a Paris rail station. Smoke bombs let off at Biarritz airport. Anger at French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms showed no sign of letting up on Tuesday as ...

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 ...

Article 49.3, invoked by President Macron, allows France to move forward on pension reform without a parliamentary vote.

World January 18, 2023 France’s Pension Reform Battle Will Be Decided in the Streets Macron is trying to push through cuts to the retirement system, looking to generate savings on the backs of ...

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.

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.

Pension reform: What France's largest labor union has to say about it The CFDT, known for its moderate approach, has either supported or rejected different plans to reform the French pension ...

The French government is planning to raise the official retirement age by two years as part of a long-delayed reform to the country’s pension system that has prompted labor unions to call for ...

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 ...

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.