The French President Emmanuel Macron's government has recently actively promoted the reform of the retirement system, raising the minimum legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years old, and increasing the number of consecutive years of work before people can receive pensions. This has caused dissatisfaction among many labor and trade unions, and Therefore, many strikes were held to oppose reforms.
In response to people's dissatisfaction, the French government took a tough stance and still insisted on implementing it. Macron never responded to the demonstrations until February 2, when he held a public dialogue with the public on the retirement system reform for the first time at the Longis wholesale market in Paris.
Macron said people should have "common sense", saying the reform was to create more wealth for the country, otherwise the retirement system would be unsustainable, and urged people to accept longer working hours and delay the retirement age to 64.
Currently, the retirement system reform draft has been sent to the French Senate for continued consideration. France's major trade unions decided to launch a new round of large-scale strikes and demonstrations on March 3.
