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Is France’s work-life balance under threat? | The Stream
A plan by France’s president to raise the minimum retirement age has brought workers across the country to the streets and prompted labour unions to raise the prospect of open-ended strike action. At least 1.2 million people in French cities and towns joined demonstrations on March 7 against Emmanuel Macron’s proposals to increase the age of eligibility for a state pension from 62 to 64…
Riots shake France’s Corsica over assault on jailed nationalist
Violent clashes have broken out between protesters and police on France’s Mediterranean island of Corsica over the assault in prison on a nationalist figure. Yvan Colonna, who is serving a life sentence for the assassination in 1998 of Corsica’s top regional official Claude Erignac, is currently in a coma after being beaten on March 2 in jail by a fellow detainee serving time for “terror”…