Macron’s popularity “is in freefall”. Bénédicte Paviot, correspondent at France24, tells jackielongc4 French pension reforms are a “legal victory” for President Macron.
The French president Emmanuel Macron has signed his controversial pension reform into law, despite months of mass protests – as union leaders and left wing opponents claimed he had sneaked the measures through in the middle of the night.
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