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When Emmanuel Macron was re-elected as France's president last year, it was with a promise to bring in economic reforms after the damage done by Covid and what he believed was decades of failure to modernise.His platform was enough to defeat the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, but she gained ground and a strong showing in the parliamentary election was enough to help deprive him of a working majority in the national assembly.

President Emmanuel Macron has finally made the case for pension reform six days after his government used special powers to ram it through the National Assembly.His appearance on the 1pm TV news on Wednesday was both a typical Macron performance and rather strange.Strange, first of all, because he chose to speak to the lunchtime news bulletins, which are traditionally dominated by old ways making lace or new ways of making cheese.

FRANCE IN TURMOIL 03:10 Founder of French far-left party La France Insoumise (LFI) Jean-Luc Melenchon speaks during a press conference in Toulouse, southern France, on March 22, 2023.Charly Triballeau, AFP French union leaders and opposition politicians on Wednesday reacted with outrage to a televised interview with President Emmanuel Macron in which he discussed planned pension reforms recently forced through government.

One way to understand the current crisis in France is to know that the country has never had a lame-duck president.Emmanuel Macron is the first head of state to win re-election since the country barred serving three consecutive terms in 2008.In 2027, he's out.Not having to face the voters again can imply a kind of political incapacity, and that is where Macron found himself last week, as his bill to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 appeared uncertain of passing the country's splintered National Assembly.

The French government survived by a narrow margin a no-confidence vote on Monday after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne forced controversial pension reforms through parliament without a vote last week.The motion, tabled by a centrist party and others, was slightly short of the 287 it needed to pass, gathering 278 votes.

26 minutes ago26 minutes ago Two parliamentary groups have filed no-confidence motions against the government of President Emmanuel Macron after his prime minister forced through controversial pension reforms without a vote.The French government faces two no-confidence votes on Monday after Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne forced controversial pension reforms through parliament without a vote last week.

A protest against the French government's pension reform on Thursday in a street in Marseille.CHRISTOPHE SIMON (AFP) France has entered a moment of political and social unrest.French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to pass his unpopular pension reform via decree instead of putting it to a vote in the National Assembly has placed him and his government in a precarious position.

French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered his prime minister to use a special constitutional power that skirts parliament to force through highly unpopular pension system changes.is Bill to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 could become law without a democratic majority.His calculated risk set off a clamour among politicians, who began singing the national anthem even before prime minister Elisabeth Borne arrived in the lower chamber.

Uniforms have never been compulsory in all state schools in mainland France, and the education minister is against any such law.The president's wife, a 69-year-old former high school drama teacher, said she had worn a uniform at school in an interview with Le Parisien Daily published Wednesday.I wore a uniform as a pupil: 15 years of dark blue short skirt, dark blue jumper.

France's first lady Brigitte Macron says she backs the idea of school uniforms, as the far right is pushing in parliament to make a unified dress code mandatory nationwide.Published: 12 January 2023 17:35 CET Uniforms have never been compulsory in all state schools in mainland France, and the education minister is against any such law.

France's first lady Brigitte Macron says she backs the idea of school uniforms, as the far right is pushing in parliament to make a unified dress code mandatory nationwide.Published: 12 January 2023 17:35 CET Uniforms have never been compulsory in all state schools in mainland France, and the education minister is against any such law.

France's first lady Brigitte Macron says she backs the idea of school uniforms, as the far right is pushing in parliament to make a unified dress code mandatory nationwide.Published: 12 January 2023 17:35 CET Uniforms have never been compulsory in all state schools in mainland France, and the education minister is against any such law.