Evening Edition: French Protestors Angry With Pension Reform Take To The Streets

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Mass demonstrations in Paris and other cities over President Macron's decision to raise the country's retirement age. Garbage is piling up in the streets of the capital as collectors refuse to work and protests also causing flight delays and even the delivery of fuel to gas stations. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Alex Hogan, FOX News Foreign Correspondent based in London, about the protests that seem to be getting larger everyday and whether or not there is an end in sight. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Greg Jarrett.
0:01.0	I'm Sandra Smith.
0:02.0	I'm Charles Payne, and this is The Fox News rundown.
0:05.3	Thursday, March 23rd, 2023.
0:11.6	I'm John Sossier.
0:13.2	Parts of France have seemed a little upside down lately with major protests all across
0:16.9	the country over a controversial new proposal by President Emmanuel Macron.
0:21.6	He says in order to save the nation's pension system, they need to move the retirement
0:25.6	age from 62 to 64.
0:28.9	It's just two more years, right?
0:29.9	Well, for these protesters, it's a lot.
0:32.7	For belief, a core part of their culture that they should, they see it as a right to
0:38.3	be able to retire after giving decades of your life to the workforce.
0:42.5	This is The Fox News rundown, evening edition.
0:50.0	From The Fox News Podcasts Network, I'm Ben Dominic, Fox News contributor and editor
0:54.8	of TheTransom.com Daily Newsletter, and I'm inviting you to join a conversation every
0:59.4	week.
1:00.4	It's The Ben Dominic Podcasts.
1:01.4	Subscribe and listen now by going to FoxNewsPodcasts.com.
1:05.4	These days in Paris, there's more garbage and baguettes with sanitation workers, teachers,
1:09.6	you name it, all upset with the plan to move the country's retirement age.
1:13.2	Will their voices be heard, though, as the French President works to make this a reality?
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