Emmanuel Macron travels this Wednesday to Muttersholtz, a small Alsatian town of 2,000 inhabitants. If the unions shunned the first meeting at the Élysée after promulgation of the postponement of the legal age of departure, the President intends to use this pact to bring them back to his table.

"These are subjects that we carry all the time, we are stuck, we have no choice but to go," admits an official of a reformist union.