Nevertheless, the pension reform, which raised the retirement age from 62 to 64, remains severely unpopular in France. The ...

Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Sunday rejected the idea of reverting to 62 as the basic retirement age in France, appearing to narrow options for unions and employers negotiating changes to an ...

French trade unions and opposition parties involved in negotiating France’s controversial pension reform have asked for "clarification" from Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, who on Sunday said that ...

This marks the first pension reform in 18 years since 2007 and the first increase in the contribution rate in 28 years, set to take effect next year. The bipartisan effort to pass this reform, despite ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris was closed to the public on March 27 when its workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the government's unpopular pension reform plans.

The government will present its views on a looming pension reform before the summer and possibly already by the end of April, ...

The hated Macron reform was, in fact, modest and did not solve the underlying, long-term pension problem. According to the report drawn up for the bosses-union talks by France’s budgetary ...