French protesters renew efforts to frustrate pension reform
Both sides hope to get their opponent to back down before Christmas
17 December 2019 - 20:07
Paris — French trade unions crippled transport, shut schools and brought hundreds of thousands of demonstrators into the streets on Tuesday in a redoubled effort to force President Emmanuel Macron to ditch a planned pension reform by Christmas.
Unions called the mobilisation in the hope of regaining momentum after one of the biggest waves of strikes and protests in decades had started to tail off in recent days. While it was too early to say whether they would match the 800,000 demonstrators brought into the streets two weeks ago, the strike appeared to have been observed on a similar scale...
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