“That is a thousand more policemen and gendarmes than the demonstrations of January 19,” said the minister on the sidelines of a trip to Marseille, expressing the hope that the protests would take place “under the same conditions without serious incidents” as the previous ones demonstrations of 19 January.
Air France will cancel one in ten short and medium-haul flights tomorrow as a result of protests against the planned pension reform. Because air traffic controllers are also on strike, the French civil aviation authority (DGAC) has asked to cut the number of flights to and from Paris Orly airport. Customers affected by the canceled flights will be notified individually, Air France reports. T
At 62, France has one of the lowest minimum retirement ages in Europe. Initially, Macron intended to set the bar at 65 years. That has since been lowered to 64 years. In this way, the government wants to safeguard the financial viability of social security.