Strikers continue to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension plans.
Nationwide strikes and protests continued in France for an eighth day against President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform plans, Anadolu Agency reported.
Tensions have been escalating in France after a meeting on Monday between Jean-Paul Delevoye, the minister and high commissioner in charge of pension reform, and labour union leaders failed to break the impasse.In Paris, protestors gathered at Nation Square, while in the city of Nantes, demonstrators rallied at a shopping mall.
The Interior Ministry said 806,000 people took part in the protests, while labour unions put the number at nearly 1.5 million.
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