French President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the country’s retirement age cleared the final hurdle to becoming law with the approval of France’s Constitutional Council
Constitutional Council ruling clears way for key parts of leader’s pension overhaul to become law in September French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension-overhaul plans have left his parliamentary ranks in disarray.
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