Emmanuel Macron back from Netherlands amid sustained unrest over plan to raise pension age to 64
Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated across France on Thursday, with trade unionists and strikers briefly storming into the Paris headquarters of the luxury goods company LVMH, in a fresh round of protests against Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular plans to raise the minimum pension age from 62 to 64.
The luxury group, whose brands include Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, is owned by Bernard Arnault, the world’s richest person, whose fortune exceeds $200bn . The French president is under pressure to set out how the government intends to calm public opinion and move ahead if the unpopular pensions changes are validated by the constitutional council on Friday.
Ministers are privately confident that the council will approve the changes, after the government used an executive order to
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