France's president continued to refuse to concede with unions, who were protesting primarily against increasing the retirement age from 62 to 64, despite the unrest plaguing the country since mid-January.
PARIS, France - On Tuesday, France braced for another day of strikes and protests with President Emmanuel Macron remaining defiant over the controversial pensions reform that has sparked turmoil in the country.
Nearly two weeks after Macron rammed the new pensions law through parliament using a special provision sidestepping any vote, unions have vowed no let-up in mass protests to get the government to back down. But he said the violent protests "had nothing to do with pensions" and all they had in common "was to target our institutions and security forces".
If unions accept her offer for talks, Borne is expected to put new measures on the table designed to ease the impact of the pensions law targeting physically demanding jobs, conditions for older workers and retraining.Laurent Berger, the head of the moderate CFDT union, who has taken an unexpectedly hard line against the pension reform, said he would accept the offer of talks but only if the reform was first "put to one side".
Adding to tensions, protesters and police engaged in major clashes at a protest over water storage facilities in Sainte-Soline in southwestern France on Saturday.Seven protesters were wounded in total as well as 29 members of the security forces.
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