Paris — On Tuesday, French energy workers protesting against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform cut power to the world’s largest wholesale fresh food market, Rungis near Paris, the hard-left CGT union’s energy branch said.

A spokesperson for Rungis International Market said emergency power kicked in when the outage began at 5.30am GMT and that there was no disruption to trade. The power cut lasted 90 minutes...

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