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"We're going down the mountain to get rid of Macron". Some 200 seasonal workers are mobilizing in a good-natured atmosphere on their way to the ski resorts in Savoie in the French Alps to alert tourists to the expected repercussions of the unemployment insurance reform. IMAGES
The head of French union Young Farmers Arnaud Gaillot said blockading Paris would be a "last resort", but urged the government to avoid "paralysing the country". Standing alongside the union FNSEA, Gaillot asserts that "the ball is in the government's court" whom it urged to avoid "paralysing the country". French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal is due to make "concrete proposals" on Friday, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. SOUNDBITE
After walking on the rails between the Lyon and Bercy stations in Paris, striking railway workers hold a general assembly on the 10th day of protests against pension reform. IMAGES
The port of Calais is slowing down as part of the "dead ports" day launched by the CGT union to fight against the French government's pension reform. IMAGES
Skiers take the Roches Noires chairlift in the resort of La Rosière, Savoie, which leads to the start of the blue run on which French actor Gaspard Ulliel died aged 37. IMAGES
In Porté-Puymorens, in the French Pyrenees, a hundred people turn up for the opening of the first ski slope of the season, after a 20-month interruption due to the Covid crisis. IMAGES
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