France pension reforms: Constitutional Council clears age rise to 64
The Constitutional Council backs the thrust of President Macron’s reforms despite weeks of protests. …
Trade unions made a last-ditch appeal to the president not to sign the pension-age increase into law, faced with the public’s “massive rejection of this reform”. The unions pointed out that six concessions that had been added to the reforms had been rejected by the court, so what was already unfair was now “even more unbalanced”.