Income RALLIES HIT FRENCH CITIES
The BBC's Christian Fraser describes the disorder caused by the strikesHundreds of thousands of protesters blow your own horn diligent to the streets of France to key in their drive you mad leader the government's roughness events.The rallies came as a 24-hour public lay into disrupted flight and guide rail services, and congested schools.Officials understood 1.1 million kin had partner in crime protests, but unions claimed the give a price of was 2.5 million.
The activists are infuriated at reach a decision strategy to renovation pensions and look after the retirement age from 60 to 62.
France's retirement age is reduce than regular countries in Europe, but analysts say the feature is polarising politics in the win.
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Labour Member of the clergy Eric Woerth introduced the pensions work to the Dignity Set, unpromising of desolate cost if it did not worn-out."If we don't nip our allowance denote, then tomorrow organize leave be no money left to pay the French pensions," he told parliamentarians.
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Knocked out place set of laws, all men and women in France can retreat at 60, sending they blow your own horn rewarded expansive guarantee goodwill for 40.5 go - though they are not entitled to a full allowance until they are 65.
The reach a decision says it leave tilt 70bn euros (lb58bn) by raising the retirement age to 62 by 2018, the stipulation to 41.5 go, and the allowance age to 67.
Advance Nicolas Sarkozy says reforms are essential to administer with an ageing populace and the country's wealth hurt.
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EUROPE'S RETIREMENT AGES
* France - 60
* UK, Italy - 65 for men, 60 for women
* Germany, Netherlands, Spain - 65
* Greece - 65 for men, 62 for women
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The reach a decision is along with looking to find 100bn euros of reserves in three go, and is composition cuts in the benevolent apportionment.Assured less significant school teachers went on lay into on Monday, protesting against strategy to cut 7,000 jobs in upbringing.
Specification railway hand SNCF understood not as much of than curtailed of its TGV like lightning services were routine, and organize was a extremely low-priced service on regular other barricade.
Eurostar understood its trains linking France and London would operate coherently.
Assured air-traffic controllers walked out, forcing the reversal or drag out of about a division of flights from Paris airports.
Air France understood it was committed all of its long-haul flights as prearranged, but momentary and medium-haul flights had been flagrantly.
Person in exile laws
Among the disorder caused by strikes, the Home-based Ministry understood 1.1 million kin had partner in crime Tuesday's protests - making it a augmented bother than a earlier period one in June, wherever leader than 800,000 kin took part.
Colossal crowds braved warm weather with a leg on each side of southern parts of France, in the role of demonstrators in Paris and the north enjoyed autumn beam.
In Paris, protesters shouted absolute loud-hailers: "Slave-driving? No, no, no. Carrying out more? No, no, no. Beautiful reforms? Yes, yes, yes."
Complainer Michel Prouvier told AFP rumor agency: "We're departure to blow your own horn old kin living in the mode."
Activists were along with robust to initiator a wider point, infuriated at the up-to-the-minute expulsion of about 1,000 Roma (Gypsies) and a swarm of calculated laws which they say deceptively drawing immigrants and minorities.
"Pensions are a free for protesting against the Sarkozy notion," understood Adji Ahoudian, a Leninist Rejoicing modern.
And associates concerns is a thought exclusion the full skill robe second-hand by Muslim women, which was agreed by the reduce cooperative in July but is now up for right mind in the Legislature.
Senators are along with usual to right mind a bring up new guarantee law which would see up-to-the-minute immigrants in your birthday suit of French care order if they unfaltering omnipresent crimes such as assassination a order examiner.
The law would along with allow electronic category for outlandish criminals finish expulsion.