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PARIS — France’s Constitutional Council cleared Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age, giving the French president a boost in his attempt to turn the page on an episode that has left him deeply unpopular and compromised his ability to enact further legislation.

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.

The French constitutional court on Friday approved the key elements of President Emmanuel Macron's controversial pension reform while rejecting certain parts of the legislation. Pushing the legal age for drawing a full pension from 62 to 64, the legislation is deeply unpopular in France and has triggered months of mass…

French President Emmanuel Macron has toured the reconstruction works at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

"A challenge that European democracies are totally unprepared for." That was the reaction of one MEP to images that recently went viral on social media. The pictures, generated by artificial intelligence, purported to show French President Emmanuel Macron collecting rubbish, and former US president Donald Trump being arrested. In both…

Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven nations will focus on the security of both Europe and the Indo-Pacific as they gather in Japan from Sunday against a worrying backdrop of the war in Ukraine and China's growing assertiveness.   

Protests against Emmanuel Macron’s controversial plans reignite in Marseille, Rouen and elsewhere

War in region would send shock waves around the world, says Annalena Baerbock on visit to China

China on Friday hit back at comments by the Polish prime minister that linked the war in Ukraine to a possible Chinese attack on Taiwan, accusing him of interfering in its internal affairs.