Teens in France taking part in demonstrations against Macron's pension reforms say they are already protest veterans after their parents took them to demonstrations when they were little. 'The French are known for fighting and we’ll fight.'
, the look of determination on their young faces only heralds deepening crisis. His government has ignited a firestorm of anger with unpopular pension reforms that he railroaded through parliament and which, most notably, push the legal retirement age from 62 to 64.
The protest movement is picking up new recruits, including some so young that it will be many decades before they’ll be directly impacted by the pushed-back retirement age.So drastically has Macron lost the initiative that he was forced to indefinitely postpone a planned state visit this week by. Germany, not France, will now get the honor of being the first overseas ally to host Charles as monarch.
Violence is picking up, too. Police and environmental activists fought pitched battles over the weekend in rural western France, resulting in dozens of injuries. Officers fired more than 4,000 nonlethal dispersion grenades in fending off hundreds of protesters who rained down rocks, powerful fireworks and gasoline bombs on police lines., Macron’s predecessor, “is at a level that I have rarely seen.
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