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Demonstrators block the access to the Ikea store in protest against the pension reforms in Bayonne, southwestern France, Thursday, April 20, 2023. Union activists stage scattered actions to press France's government to scrap the new law raising the retirement age. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Anger at new retirement age fuels further protests in France

By Daniel Cole and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron argues with a person opposed to the pension reform, in Selestat, eastern France, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday April 17, 2023 that he heard people's anger over raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, but insisted that it was needed to keep the pension system afloat as the population ages. Emmanuel Macron is trying to repair the damage done to his public image and politics by forcing the pension plan through parliament last month. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

France’s President Macron heckled by crowd angry over pensions

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French President Emmanuel Macron looks on as he talks with Senegalese war veterans Friday, April 14, 2023 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron is aiming to calm public anger that threatens the ambitions of his remaining four years in power with a first televised address to the nation on Monday April 17, 2023 since he enacted protest-igniting pension reforms. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool, File)

Macron speaks: French leader aims to calm pension storm

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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping after meeting the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on April 6, 2023. In the weeks since Chinese leader Xi Jinping won a third five-year term as president, setting him on course to remain in power for life, leaders and diplomats from around the world have beaten a path to his door. None more so than those from Europe. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool, File)

EU leaders beat a path to Xi’s door seeking China’s help

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

The Constitutional Council is pictured in Paris, France, Wednesday, April 12, 2023. The body' role is to make sure a bill is in line with the Constitution prior to enactment. French unions have staged Thursday a new round of nationwide protests, one day before an expected ruling of the country’s top constitutional body they hope will bring a halt to President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension plan. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Can France’s constitutional body halt disputed pension bill?

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing to examine the implementation of the Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act, on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Biden blamed for French President Macron’s cozying up to China

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Dutch King Willem-Alexander listen to national anthems outside the royal palace on Dam square in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 11, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron begins a two-day state visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday and is making a speech on his vision for the future of Europe. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Macron visits Netherlands after Taiwan comments make waves

By Peter DeJong and Mike Corder - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, second left, and French President Emmanuel Macron talk in the garden of the Guandong province governor's residence, in Guangzhou, China, Friday, April 7, 2023. (Jacques Witt, Pool via AP)

Macron comments on Taiwan raise questions on EU global ties

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Youths run though tear gas during a protest in Nantes, western France, on Thursday, April 6, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to fill the streets of France Thursday for the 11th day of nationwide resistance to a government proposal to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. The furious public reaction to the plan has cornered and weakened French President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

Protests again grip France, but Macron not backing down

By John Leicester and Oleg Cetinic - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech as he meets the French community, in Beijing, China, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Macron will have to muster all his diplomatic adeptness and political acumen on a three-day state visit to China where the war in Ukraine will be front and center. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Macron in China urges ‘shared responsibility for peace’

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French President Emmanuel Macron waits for European Commission president Ursula van der Leyen before a working lunch, Monday, April 3, 2023 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. The two leaders will travel to China later this week. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Macron heads to China for delicate talks on Ukraine, trade

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

A woman holds a placard depicting French President Emmanuel Macron sitting on garbage cans that reads, "king of trash" during a protest in Paris, Friday, March 17, 2023. Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote disrupted traffic, garbage collection and university campuses in Paris as opponents of the change maintained their resolve to get the government to back down. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly) **FILE**

Paris trash strike ends after three weeks, workers removing tons of garbage

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

People march during a demonstration Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in Paris. Protests are taking place in France on Tuesday. It's the latest round of nationwide demonstrations and strikes against unpopular pension reforms and President Emmanuel Macron's push to raise France's legal retirement age from 62 to 64. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Protests over higher retirement age grip France as teachers, rail workers join garbage collectors

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Protesters march during a rally in Paris, on March 23, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron has ignited a firestorm of anger with unpopular pension reforms that he rammed through parliament. Young people, some of them first-time demonstrators, are joining protests against him. Violence is also picking up. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

In Macron’s France, streets and fields seethe with protest

By John Leicester - Associated Press

A protester kicks a tear gas canister in front of the Opera at the end of a rally in Paris, Thursday, march 23, 2023. French unions are holding their first mass demonstrations Thursday since President Emmanuel Macron enflamed public anger by forcing a higher retirement age through parliament without a vote. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Protests continue in France; British king’s visit postponed

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People walk past uncollected garbages in Paris, Friday March 17, 2023, as sanitation workers are on strike. Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote disrupted traffic, garbage collection and university campuses in Paris as opponents of the change maintained their resolve to get the government to back down. Arc de Triomphe in the background. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Paris garbage collectors continue strike as trash lines streets

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Dock workers stand in front of a burning barricade next the port of Marseille southern France, Wednesday, March 22, 2023.The bill pushed through by President Emmanuel Macron without lawmakers' approval still faces a review by the Constitutional Council before it can be signed into law. Meanwhile, oil shipments in the country were disrupted amid strikes at several refineries in western and southern France. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

1 million march in France, unions call new pension protests

By Sylvie Corbet and Alexander Turnbull - Associated Press

People stage a protest against the retirement bill in Paris, Monday, March 20, 2023. France's government is fighting for its survival Monday against no-confidence motions filed by lawmakers who are furious that President Emmanuel Macron used special constitutional powers to force through an unpopular bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 without giving them a vote. Les Invalides in background. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

French government fights to survive 2 no-confidence motions

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A man looks at a fire set by protesters in Marseille, southern France, Monday, March 20, 2023. The French government has survived two no-confidence votes in the lower chamber of parliament, proposed by lawmakers who objected to its push to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

French government survives no-confidence votes over pensions

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A woman holds a placard depicting French President Emmanuel Macron sitting on garbage cans that reads, "king of trash" during a protest in Paris, Friday, March 17, 2023. Protests against French President Emmanuel Macron's decision to force a bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 through parliament without a vote disrupted traffic, garbage collection and university campuses in Paris as opponents of the change maintained their resolve to get the government to back down. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly) **FILE**

Macron’s leadership at risk amid tensions over pension plan

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press