Notwithstanding the hundreds of thousands of people who have gathered in the streets to oppose the new law, the French Senate on Saturday approved the nation’s pension reform plan.
Despite the hundreds of thousands of people who have turned to the streets to oppose a fundamental policy change that could define President Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term, the French Senate on Saturday approved the country’s pension reform plan.
With a vote of 195 to 112, the French upper chamber of parliament approved the plan, whose main provision is a two-year increase in the retirement age to 64.
