(PARIS) — France’s vaunted high-speed trains stood still Thursday, schools across the country shut down and the Eiffel Tower warned visitors to stay away as unions held nationwide strikes and protests over the government’s plan to overhaul the retirement system. Paris deployed 6,000 police for what’s expected to be a major demonstration through the capital, an outpouring of anger at President Emmanuel Macron for a reform seen as threatening the hard-fought French way of life. The Eiffel Tower and the Louvre Museum warned of strike disruptions, and Paris hotels struggled to fill rooms.
Mass Strike Over Pensions Tangles Transportation Across France
ANGELA CHARLTON and SYLVIE CORBET / AP, Time: World
Thu, 12/05/2019 - 12:36am
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