France paralysed as hundreds of thousands take to the streets in protest over pensions overhaul plan

People take part in a demonstration against the pensions overhauls, in Paris, France. Image: Aspis Danielle/ABACA People take part in a demonstration against the pensions overhauls, in Paris, France. Image: Aspis Danielle/ABACA A NATIONWIDE STRIKE brought much of France to a standstill today in a protest the government’s planned overhaul of the pension system, one of President Emmanuel Macron most ambitious reforms.

In the capital as well as in the southeastern city of Lyon and western city of Nantes police fired teargas to disperse small groups of rioters but protests were mainly peaceful. “We now expect the government to take the measure of this mobilisation, and understand that its universal system is a bad idea,” he said.

Paris transport workers, meanwhile, voted to extend their industrial action, which shut down 11 out of 16 metro lines, until at least Monday. Bike paths were packed as commuters turned to bicycles and electric scooters, while several ride-hailing companies were offering special strike promotions. A preschool teacher demonstrating in the eastern city of Belfort, Anne Audier-L’Epingle, told AFP she was striking because “I don’t know what I will be able to offer two-year-old children when I’m 65.”

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Fairplay to french not like galway sheep like irish wont take crap take to the streets irish people took to streets over water charges and it was nothing to what government is doing in last years to irish

Maybe it’s about time us Irish do the same nationstrike

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