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Given the seriousness of the economic and social situation in France, the priority is "'employment and low-wage issues", says French union chief Philippe Martinez, as he meets with newly-named Prime Minister Jean Castex. SOUNDBITE
Hundreds of flights are cancelled at French airports despite the country's main air traffic controllers' union dropping a call for a one-day strike after making a deal for higher pay. IMAGES
Arnaud Rousseau, President of the FNSEA, France's top farmers' union, welcomes Marc Fesneau, the French Agriculture Minister, to the 78th FNSEA Congress in Dunkirk, northern France, at a time when the beginning of the year has been marked by a vast movement of anger in the farming world. IMAGES
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen announces that the EU's executive arm will recommend that member states open formal membership talks with Bosnia. "The future of Bosnia and Herzegovina lies in our union," she says. SOUNDBITE
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
"91% of working people are against", "let's block the country": a few thousand people demonstrate at the Place de la Concorde, in Paris, to protest against the pension reform and the triggering of article 49.3. IMAGES
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