France’s constitutional court has given the go-ahead to President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to increase the minimum pension age from 62 to 64.
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The ruling was met with widespread opposition, with hundreds of protesters pouring out on to Paris’s streets to march against the bill. The bill was initially forced through parliament using a special mechanism. Sophie Binet, head of the CGT union, called for the protests to continue. ‘The message tonight is that the mobilisation continues,’ Binet said.
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