France braced for a new round of nationwide protests and strikes on Thursday after a meeting between the prime minister and labor unions failed to break a political stalemate over a deeply unpopular pension bill making people work for longer
Protests against the reform - which lifts the retirement age by two years to 64 - have drawn crowds of hundreds of thousands in rallies organised by unions since January, and at times turned violent.
They said the only way out of the crisis was for the legislation to be pulled, an option which Borne flatly rejected. Thursday's marches - the 11th day of protests in the past three months - could provide an indication of whether the drawn-out rallies are losing steam or gaining momentum. Paris public transport operator RATP predicted traffic would be almost normal on Thursday. Trains are expected to be more heavily disrupted and the civil aviation authority asked airlines to cut flights by 20% in cities like Bordeaux and Marseille, but not at Paris airports like in the past.
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