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Why there are massive protests in France?

 This all started in 2019 when French president proposed a law to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 as France's retirement age is among the lowest in Europe. Overhauling pensions has long been a controversial issue in France, with street protests halting reform  efforts in 1995, and the successive government's facing stiff resistance to changes that got eventually passed in 2004,2008 and 2010. however, union say it threatens hard-fought worker rights As France has an ageing population and growing life expectancy where everyone receives a state pension while the Macron government said, the reform is the only way to keep the system solvent. The Pension Reform The law stated that the minimum retirement age to be entitle to a full pension will be gradually increased by three month every year, starting from this year. Also starting from 2027, people will need to have worked for at least 43 years to get a full pension. However, there will be exception to this rule, for Police o...