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Garbage is set on fire by protesters after a demonstration near Concorde square, in Paris, Thursday, March 16, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron has shunned parliament and imposed a highly unpopular change to the nation's pension system, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

Protests erupt in France over Macron’s retirement age push

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

Oil workers gather at the Donges oil refinery, western France, Friday, March 10, 2023 in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron insisted on the need for raising the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 with the aim to make the French pension system financially sustainable in the coming years. The move comes after more than a million demonstrators marched in cities and towns across France this week as train and metro drivers, refineries workers and others have started open-ended strikes against the centrist government's plan. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

Macron insists pension reform is needed, despite protests

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French President Emmanuel Macron, left, is greeted by Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa Saturday March 4, 2023. Macron, on the last leg of an ambitious Africa trip that took him to Gabon, Angola, the Republic of Congo and Congo, wants to roll out more ambitious economic policies, in a bid to boost France's waning influence in the continent (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)

Congo leader urges Macron to back sanctions against Rwanda

By Jean-Yves Kamale - Associated Press

A protester holds a placard reading "Go To Work Lazy, Your Pension at 64years Old, It Is NO" during a demonstration against plans to push back France's retirement age, in Paris, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. France is bracing itself for a fourth round of nationwide protests against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to reform pensions but key transports unions have not called for strikes allowing trains and the Paris metro to run this time. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Fourth day of pension reform protests hits France

By Thomas Adamson and Jade Le Deley - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Gen. Stephane Mille, second right, before his New Year address to the French Army, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023 at the Mont-de-Marsan air base, southwestern France. President Emmanuel Macron is expected to unveil his vision for modernizing the military in his nuclear-armed country, taking into account the impact of the war in Ukraine and evolving threats around the world. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, Pool)

Macron proposes increased military spending plan until 2030

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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his New Year speech to medical workers at the Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien Hospital in the southern Paris suburban city of Corbeil-Essonnes, Friday Jan. 6, 2023. Emmanuel Macron visits a pediatric hospital and gives a new year's speech to medics, amid protests and anger over long-unresolved funding and hiring issues in France's health care system.( Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

Macron to overhaul France’s struggling health care system

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French president Emmanuel Macron gestures during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between France and Morocco at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, on Dec. 14, 2022. Macron is about to jet off to Qatar for the second time in a week, despite broad concerns about the emirate's human rights and environmental record. Why? Because France is in the World Cup final, and Macron really is a big football fan — as well as a prominent advocate of the longstanding partnership between the two countries. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)

Macron returns to Qatar for love of sport, despite criticism

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French president Emmanuel Macron gestures during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between France and Morocco at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Macron attends France-Morocco semifinal match at World Cup

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French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the H2Med summit in Alicante, Spain, Friday Dec. 9, 2022. The H2Mad summit is to discuss a plan for an undersea pipeline that would eventually transport hydrogen and will connect the ports of Barcelona in Spain and Marseille in France. (AP Photo/J.M Fernandez)

France to make condoms free for anyone under 25, Macron says

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President Joe Biden speaks before signing H.J.Res.100, a bill that aims to avert a freight rail strike, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, in Washington. The measure passed Thursday by the Senate and Wednesday by the House binds rail companies and workers to a proposed settlement that was reached between the rail companies and union leaders in September. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Going rogue: Biden bypassing Congress to fix climate law ‘glitches’

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden bows to France’s Macron, admits Democrats’ $740 billion climate law contains flaws

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

White House executive chef Cris Comerford holds dishes during a media preview for the State Dinner with President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. The dinner will include a butter poached Maine lobster, beef with shallot marmalade, American artisanal cheeses, and an orange chiffon cake for desert. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Mainers seeing red over Biden serving lobster at state dinner while federal regs threaten lobstermen

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine in response to a question during a news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden: I’ll talk to Putin only if he agrees to end Ukraine war

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron toast during a State Dinner on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden toasts to U.S.-French goodwill after tough talks with oldest ally

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron review the troops with Col. David Rowland, commander of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, The Old Guard, during a State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

European blowback over Biden’s tax-and-climate law shakes up state visit by France’s Macron

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

French President Emmanuel Macron whispers to U.S. President Joe Biden following their dinner at the G7 Summit in Elmau, Germany, June 26, 2022. Macron is heading to Washington for the first state visit of Biden’s presidency—a reviving of diplomatic pageantry that had been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden, Macron ready to talk Ukraine, trade in state visit

By Aamer Madhani and Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in front of people involved in fighting wildfires last summer, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Emmanuel Macron meets firefighters, rescuers, and volunteers who battled brutal summer blazes (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

Marcon welcomes French questions on climate ahead of COP27

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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers his speech at &quot;Cry for peace&quot; an international conference for peace organized by the Community of Sant'Egidio in Rome, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Macron: Ukraine to decide time, terms of peace with Russia

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

Illustration on Russian diplomacy with Putin by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

What diplomacy with Putin would look like now

By Clifford D. May

Emmanuel Macron, President of France, addresses the 77th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. Italy’s European Union partners are signaling discomfort and vigilance after one of the bloc’s founding members swung far to the political right, raising troubling questions about whether Rome will maintain its commitments to EU principles, laws and ambitions. The French prime minister on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, said that France, along with EU officials, would be watching closely to ensure that basic human rights rights along with access to abortion, are guaranteed in Italy after Giorgia Meloni’s neo-fascist Brother’s of Italy Party topped the vote count in Sunday’s parliamentary election. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Biden to host France’s Macron for first state visit

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times