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Four months of civil unrest and the implementation of a hugely unpopular retirement reform have left the French President with drastically low approval ratings. Agnès Poirier reports from Paris

France's Constitional Council on Friday sanctioned the controversial core of President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform - the plan to raise the legal retirement age from 62 to 64.

Constitutional council’s ruling means government can pass law to increase minimum eligible age as early as next week

Amid the tense political atmosphere gripping France as the pension reform crisis continues, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Wednesday became the latest member of the Macron government to criticise the Human Rights League, one of France’s oldest NGOs, even accusing it of taking an “ambiguous” stance on Islamism in recent…

First meeting between both sides since pension changes were presented in January was over in an hour, and unions emerged calling for more protests

City is cleaner, though not yet entirely clean, after three-week strike ends but union threatens more action

Fury over policing tactics has changed dimension of protests against plan to raise retirement age

Fears of more violent clashes with police as demonstrations against Macron’s unpopular pensions policy to carry on

French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne on Monday is set to start a series of consultations over the next three weeks with opposition MPs, political parties and local leaders after weeks of protests over pension reforms.

Strikes over pension reform are not the problem. The president is up against the spirit of a nation

Protests against raising of retirement age reached most intense level yet on Thursday