The French spring of discontent pits Macron against the street
, who set almost nightly bonfires to protest Mr. Macron’s move to raise the French retirement age.
No one is really surprised. Mr. Macron was taking a huge risk when he decided to push ahead with his long-promised reform of France’s financially unsustainable public pension system without his Renaissance party holding a solid majority of seats in the National Assembly. When Ms. Borne failed to win over enough centre-right oppositionby invoking a clause in the French constitution that allows the government to bypass the legislature, provided it can survive a subsequent non-confidence vote.
Almost anywhere else, pension reform would not be this controversial. But for the French, who work to live rather than the other way around, what Mr. Macron is doing amounts to sacrilege. The protesters depict this reform as an assault on workers by capitalist elites. Do not try to tell them that France’s retirement age would still be the lowest in Europe and its public pensions among the most generous even after the reforms are fully implemented; that only gets them angrier.
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