Emmanuel Macron

About 400,000 people joined the protest in Paris Thursday, down from 450,000 the week before, said the powerful CGT union

‘We need to find a lasting peace,’ the French president said. ‘I believe that this is also an important issue for China, as much as it is for France and for Europe’

A giant banner emblazoned with the words ‘64, it’s no’ was displayed by unionists on the top of the Arc de Triomphe monument soon after the meeting broke up

French officials say the president plans to urge Xi in talks Thursday to use Beijing’s influence with Russian President Vladimir Putin but didn’t expect a big shift in the Chinese position

A man in Paris lost a testicle to an officer’s club, a police grenade took the thumb of a woman in Rouen, and a railroad worker hit by grenade fragments lost an eye

The victims were trying to enter the United States illegally from Canada, said Lee-Ann O’Brien, deputy chief of the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service

The general secretary of the CFDT is calling on the French government to pause its controversial pension reform, warning that the conflict is turning into a democratic crisis

Security was ramped up for the 10th round of protest marches since January after the government warned that some demonstrators intended ‘to destroy, to injure and to kill’

A march by a large group of environmentalists in the rural heart of the country ended in a violent confrontation with the police, underscoring the destructive spiral in which popular opposition to Macron has entered

The French Minister for Transformation and Public Administration said in a statement that ‘recreational’ apps aren’t secure enough to be used in state administrative services

President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said ‘common sense and friendship’ has led to the cancellation, a day after as many as one million demonstrated on the streets

Striking workers have refused to provide red carpets and critics are calling for the British king’s visit to be canceled altogether amid pension reform protests

The president is sticking to his decision to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 despite mass protests and recent violent incidents in the streets

A two-week strike by Paris garbage collectors is taking a toll on the renowned aesthetics of the French capital

The backlash to the French government’s pension reform has brought the country to a gridlock, with neither side strong enough to defeat the other. A situation made clear by Monday’s no-confidence vote

With the failure of both votes Monday, the pension bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 is considered adopted

His brazen move to force a pension reform bill through without a vote has infuriated the political opposition

Police banned further gatherings on the Place de la Concorde, where protesters tossed an effigy of Macron into a bonfire as a crowd cheered Friday night

The French government is likely to face no-confidence motions, while unions have called more strikes in protest of the measure, which will raise the retirement age to 64

The risky move is expected to trigger a quick no-confidence motion in Macron’s government

Rubbish is mounting up on the streets of the French capital as municipal workers strike against the government’s plan to raise retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030

The 45-year-old pro-business centrist has put his legacy on the line with his pension reform plans

‘There will be a democratic problem if the reform is approved like this,’ Laurent Berger – the leader of France’s largest union – tells EL PAÍS

France and the UK plan to strengthen military cooperation, including on supplying weapons to Kyiv and training Ukrainian Marines

Biden and von der Leyen are expected to agree to open negotiations about the use of European minerals critical in the production of electric vehicle batteries

The continuing strikes and protest actions come after more than a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across France on Tuesday

Unions threatened to freeze up the French economy with work stoppages across multiple sectors