The new rules are going through Parliament right now, but Macron doesn't have a majority anymore. He lost that at legislative elections last year and his best hope is to secure the support of some of the centre-right Republican party. The opposition parties have submitted 7,000 proposed amendments to this bill. But viewed from the outside here, it's clear that the numbers don't add up.
Fixing the complex, creaking pension system remains central to President Emmanuel Macron’s agenda of reforms. But leaving it alone is central to French identity—so workers are striking, again, in huge numbers. Our correspondent lays out why 2023’s first earnings season is so gloomy. And America is providing more legal protections for polyamorous “throuples”.
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