France's constitutional court approves key elements of President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular pension reform, which has sparked months of protests and strikes across the country
It remains to be seen if the months-long effort to block the changes by trade unions will continue, with support for strikes and protests waning.
Unions called on Macron not to sign the legislation into law, which the former investment banker is expected to do in the next 48 hours. Some 380,000 people took to the streets nationwide on Thursday in the latest day of union-led action, according to the interior ministry. In a second decision on Friday, the court rejected a bid from opposition lawmakers to force a referendum on an alternative pension law that would have kept the retirement age at 62.
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