One thing at a time, Monsieur le President. Such would be the advice most people would give Emmanuel Macron as he waits to see if his pension reform legislation, which raises the state retirement age from 62 to 64, can be put on the statute books without provoking a general uprising.
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A state of intermittent anarchy, choreographed by the trade unions, has taken over from any kind of political discourse.
Britain’s monarch and his wife will have no wish to play the part, however vicariously, of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Fierce nationwide protests are about a lot more than a modest increase in the retirement age.
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