Plans for pension reform also come at a difficult time. Due to the high energy prices, rising living costs and the lack of automatic wage indexation, the measures can count on little understanding among the French. The government emphasizes that a reform is necessary to keep the budget in balance in the coming years.
President Macron is not in France today, but in Spain to meet Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. Macron has responded from there that the planned reform is just and responsible, and that it will come. He hopes the demonstration will proceed without violence.
