The Latest Breaking News from Emmanuel Macron

Anti-pension reform campaigners were on Thursday considering their next step after France's Constitutional Council rejected a second attempt to organise a referendum on the legal retirement age.

French police have made widespread use of “preventive” arrests to quell protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular pension reform, France’s chief inspector for prisons wrote in a report published on Wednesday, adding her voice to the chorus of condemnation of police tactics.

French President Emmanuel Macron's deeply unpopular pension law passed another hurdle on Wednesday when the Constitutional Council rejected a second bid by political opponents to hold a referendum on capping the retirement age at 62.

France’s top constitutional body is to rule on a last-ditch effort by opposition lawmakers to thwart President Emmanuel Macron’s move to raise the retirement age to 64, through a possible referendum or new bill restoring the pension age to 62

France’s top constitutional body rejected on Wednesday a last-ditch effort by opposition lawmakers to undo President Emmanuel Macron's law to raise the retirement age to 64, deeming that a proposed bill doesn't meet the needed criteria.

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Opponents of a law that would raise the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 are making last-ditch plans to prevent the change

May Day is usually a worldwide celebration of labour rights, but this year’s rallies saw people walk out in outrage at their conditions including across France

French trade unions on Tuesday announced a new nationwide day of protests on June 6 against President Emmanuel Macron's decision to increase the retirement age by two years to 64.

The French inter-union group has called a new day of mobilisation against the controversial pension reform on 6 June, two days before the presentation of a bill to repeal the text in the National Assembly.