With mass protests against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform plan entering their seventh day, French workers and unions signaled that they are not ready to back down in their efforts to have the new scheme completely scrapped.
In a much-anticipated speech on Wednesday, French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe resisted protesters’ demands and said he was “totally determined” to implement the “fair” plan which would replace a fragmented, but generous, system of more than 42 separate state pensions with a new universal points-based scheme.
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