After two years of consultations and seven weeks of conflict, the pension reform must take a key step with its presentation Friday, January 24 in the Council of Ministers, government and unions returning responsibility for the punch actions.

Two bills, one organic, the other ordinary, aimed at creating the "universal system" of pension by points promised by Emmanuel Macron will be on the agenda of the executive These texts will be immediately transmitted to the National Assembly where debates will begin on February 17, with a view to a first vote in early March.

The war of attrition however continues on the ground with a new day of mobilization and demonstrations planned almost everywhere in France. Traffic at SNCF and RATP will again be disrupted by the strike against pension reform, on the 51st consecutive day of the movement.




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