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Added on the 25/04/2024 10:51:07 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The departures board says it all at Charles De Gaulle airport north of Paris: dozens of flights are cancelled as air traffic controllers strike in France over demands for higher wages. IMAGES
France's CGT union holds a torch-lit protest on Place de la République in Paris, on the eve of a seventh nationwide day of protests against pension reform. IMAGES
CFDT Secretary General Laurent Berger meets with French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe and other key officials for crunch talks about a hotly contested pension overhaul that has sparked the country's longest rail strike in history. IMAGES
CGT Secretary General Philippe Martinez arrives at Matignon for crunch talks with French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe over a hotly contested pension overhaul that has sparked the country's longest rail strike in history. IMAGES
Several thousand demonstrators, including railway workers, teachers and lawyers, took to the streets of Paris to march against pension reform. The government wants to fuse France's 42 different retirement schemes into a single points-based system but opponents fear a drastic decline in pension levels. IMAGES