'Pans won't help', Macron says, shrugging off pension protests

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President Emmanuel Macron was greeted with boos, banners and banging on pans when he visited a factory in the east of the country on Wednesday.

His appearance in Muttersholtz was his first public foray outside the capital since he signed into law an unpopular rise in the retirement age which means citizens must work two years longer before receiving their state pension.

He said it was not possible for a society to listen only to those who"make the most noise" as he sought to highlight positive aspects of France's labour leglislation.Electrical power at the factory was also cut briefly, French media reports said. Asked if the hardline CGT union was behind the cuts, a union representative declined to comment.

 

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