Banging saucepans will not move France forward, says Macron
President tours rural France in attempt to calm tensions over his unpopular pensions changes Emmanuel Macron has said that banging saucepans at him will not...
Category : Protest
‘French Spiderman’ scales Paris skyscraper during pension law protests
Alain Robert climbs 38-storey building with no harness to ‘tell Macron to come back down to earth’ A free climber known as the “French Spiderman”...
‘Twice as determined’: hundreds of thousands protest in Paris against pension reform – video report
Strike action has again heated up in Paris as demonstrators protested against Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plan to raise France’s minimum pension age from 62 to...
French protesters and police clash in marches against pension changes
Police use teargas and water cannon against hooded protesters on the margins in some cities Protesters and police clashed on the edges of street demonstrations...
France: several police and protesters injured in clash over planned reservoir
Sixteen police and two protesters seriously hurt in western rural district of Sainte-Soline Several people have been injured after clashes between French police and protesters...
Workers block Paris airport terminal as pension protests continue in France
Charles de Gaulle airport targeted, trains disrupted and some schools shut in nationwide day of action French workers angry with a rise in the pension...
Emmanuel Macron survives first confidence vote amid protests
Trade unions have led strikes against proposed rise in pension age, which is now likely to become law The French government survived a vote of...
France faces another day of strikes ahead of key vote on pension reforms
Rubbish piles up and record number of people take to streets in protest against raising retirement age to 64 French unions have called for a...
Third day of strikes and protests in France over Macron pension plans
Hundreds of thousands expected to take part in more than 200 street demonstrations across country France is facing a third day of strikes and mass...
Macron’s credibility on the line amid protests over pension changes
President’s centrist group is without a majority as parliament begins debating proposal to raise retirement age to 64 As hundreds of thousands of people prepare...
