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Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne is scheduled to unveil Emmanuel Macron's cornerstone reform later on Tuesday. The government argues the system is currently financially unsustainable and will need more contributions going forward. In this show, we look at what Borne's key measures are (raising retirement age, ending specialised pension schemes) and check whether or not the system is as unsustainable as the government says it is.
A few dozen people protesting the French government's pension reform occupy railway tracks at Nice train station in the country's south, laying a dummy representing President Emmanuel Macron across the train tracks.
Demonstrators run away from tear gas fired by police at Place de la République in Paris, on the sidelines of a rally against the French government's plan to reform the pension system. IMAGES
The French government has survived two no-confidence votes in the lower chamber of parliament after its push last week to raise the retirement age to 64
President Emmanuel Macron's government faces two motions of no confidence in the National Assembly on Monday after it bypassed the lower house to push through a deeply unpopular overhaul of the pension system that will raise the retirement age. FRANCE 24's French Politics Editor Marc Perelman tells us more.
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