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It’s a new crucial day ahead for pension reform, both in the street and at the Palais-Bourbon. Seven deputies and seven senators will indeed meet this Wednesday behind closed doors to seek a compromise on the text, an essential agreement for a final vote Thursday in the Assembly. At the same time, an eighth day of action is scheduled today at the call of the inter-union. From a police source, the information predicts between 650 and 850,000 demonstrators, less than March 7, the high point of the mobilization (1.28 million). The Parisian procession will set off at 2 p.m. from the Invalides to finish at Place d’Italie.
The showdown continues around the garbage that currently litters the streets of the capital. The garbage collectors and cleaning agents of the City of Paris, who contest the pension reform project, voted on Tuesday to continue their strike “at least until March 20”. The reaction of the executive was not long in coming. In the middle of the evening, because of the “sanitary conditions” prevailing in Paris, Gérald Darmanin instructed the Paris police chief, Laurent Nunez, to ask the town hall to “requisition” means in order to evacuate the waste. Some 7,000 tonnes of uncollected garbage were counted on the ninth day of the strike, according to the first deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, who deplores a “catastrophic situation created by the government”.
BlaBlaCar wants to strengthen its home-work journeys. To do this, the company announced on Tuesday the upcoming acquisition of the home-work carpooling platform Klaxit, number one in France in this niche, which is still underdeveloped although growing. Building on its phenomenal success in long-distance carpooling, BlaBlaCar launched its home-to-work journey in 2018 by launching the BlaBlaLines application, renamed BlaBlaCar Daily in 2021. Klaxit, originally WayzUp, is present on its side since 2014 in this market. According to BlaBlaCar, a single application will be created by 2024. In the meantime, the two products will coexist, because the acquisition has yet to be finalized.