demonstrations Pension reform plans in France bring crowds onto the streets Demonstrators walk through torch smoke at the end of the demonstration against the planned increase in the retirement age in Paris. photo © Thibault Camus/AP/dpa France's government wants people in the country to work longer. Many find the plan unfair. They express their anger with strikes and protests. Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated against the planned pension reforms of the center government under President Emmanuel Macron during a...
demonstrations Report: More than 500 dead since protests began in Iran Protests in Tehran (archive image). photo © Uncredited/AP/dpa The death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini sparked protests in Iran in mid-September. Since then, thousands have been arrested and hundreds have died. According to human rights activists, at least 527 people have been killed in Iran since the system-critical protests began more than four months ago. Among them were 71 minors and 70 members of the police and other security agencies,...
Beware of the overconfidence of members of the government in the face of the mobilization against the pension reform. "The population is very unfavorable to the project, and this opinion tends to gain momentum", warns the secretary general of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, this Saturday in an interview with the Worldthree days before a new day of demonstrations all over France against the pension reform and the postponement of the legal age to 64 years.After the "large-scale mobilizations" of January...
demonstrations Protests against refugee shelters are getting out of hand According to the police, 700 people came together in front of the meeting building of the district council of Northwest Mecklenburg on Thursday. photo © Malte Behnk/Ostsee-Zeitung /dpa A protest against the decision to build refugee accommodation in Mecklenburg leads to riots. The district council meeting must be protected by the police. Observers see right-wing extremists at work. With whistles and megaphones, demonstrators vent their protest against the construction of...
This Thursday morning, some of them met in front of the Toulouse headquarters of Thales Alenia Space to distribute a unit leaflet, others will deploy in their companies. These representatives of the eight majority unions in Haute-Garonne will only have a message "we don't give up" against the pension reform.For these organizations, united as they had not been for a long time in a social movement, it is a bit like an election between two rounds. After the “successful” day...
demonstrations Large-scale protest against pension reform in France Thousands have taken to the streets in Paris to protest the pension reform. photo © Lewis Joly/AP/dpa If the French government has its way, people in the country should soon be working longer. This is met with resentment among the population. Many find the reform plans too harsh. "We want to live, not just survive" sing skeletons made up of demonstrators in Paris during a protest against the French government's planned pension...
A signing of a "friendship and cooperation treaty" with Spain. Chance of the calendar, Emmanuel Macron spends the day in Barcelona to discuss migration, defence, energy or youth issues with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, at a time when, in France, the potentially massive demonstrations and strikes against his pension reform.Discreet in recent days on the major reform of his second term, he may have to comment on this social mobilization during his joint press conference with the head of...
What are the political forces saying about pension reform? Within the presidential majority, the President of the ModemFrançois Bayrou, considered that the reform was "improvable" and counted on the parliamentary debate to "enrich it". Elisabeth Borne "was right to insist on the fact that it must be a reform perceived as fair"continued the president of the MoDem, an ally of Emmanuel Macron. The rightwho had affirmed that she was ready “to support reform” pensions, said to herself “happy to have...
demonstrations France ahead of major strike against pension reform A participant in a demonstration against France's controversial pension reform with a and the pun "Macrona Virus" (archive image). photo © Daniel Cole/AP/dpa In France, President Macron has met with fierce criticism with plans for a higher retirement age. Today there are supposed to be protests and strikes across the country. Why is? Because of protests against a planned pension reform, train chaos, flight cancellations and mass demonstrations are threatening in...
demonstrations Remaining activists leave the tunnel under Lützerath The two remaining climate activists have left the underground tunnel under a building in Lützerath. photo © Roberto Pfeil/dpa The evacuation of Lützerath is over: Now the activists have also left the place in an underground tunnel. RWE wants to complete the "dismantling" soon. Five days after the start of the evacuation of Lützerath, two remaining climate activists left an underground tunnel under the settlement. The end of the former village on...
