Bordeaux City Hall was set on fire amid pension reform protests in France. President Emmanuel Macron has advised Britain’s King Charles III to postpone his planned trip, saying, “We would not be serious … to make a state visit in the middle of protests.”
Demonstrators had demanded that Charles cancel his trip, which was scheduled to start Sunday. The protests and labor strikes against Macron’s decision to raise France’s retirement age from 62 to 64 already had promised to impact his visit, withFrench President Emmanuel Macron said “common sense and friendship” required delaying the king’s visit, adding that it likely would have become a protest target and created a “detestable situation.
Over 450 protesters were arrested in Paris and beyond as some 300 demonstrations on Thursday drew more than a million people nationwide. Polls show that most French people oppose having to work two more years before retiring, which Macron says is necessary to keep the pension system afloat. “The king and queen consort’s state visit to France has been postponed,” the prime minister’s Downing Street office said. “This decision was taken with the consent of all parties, after the president of France asked the British government to postpone the visit.”
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