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CFDT Secretary General Laurent Berger meets with French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and other key officials for crunch talks about a hotly contested pension overhaul that has sparked the country's longest rail strike in history. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe again hosts trade union leaders and employers organisations at Matignon as the ongoing transport strike against pension reform enters its third week and railway workers still refuse the idea of a truce. IMAGES OF THE ROUNDTABLE
After meeting with the largest farmers union FNSEA, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal met with Rural Coordination, France's 2nd largest farming union. Its president, Veronique Le Floch, said it was "catastrophic" that the Prime Minister had not yet made any emergency announcements, while farmers continued to express their anger throughout France, in a protest that was mourned by the death of a farmer in Ariège, hit by a car at a roadblock. IMAGES
"If the government were to use the 49.3" article to push through its pension reform, "there would be no more rules for anyone," warns Olivier Mateu, secretary general of the Bouches-du-Rhône CGT departmental union, at a press conference in Martigues. IMAGES
A hundred protesters gather in front of the TotalEnergies refinery in Donges, western France, as employeess renew their strike against the government's pension reform project in most of the group's refineries. IMAGES