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#France: The anti-Macron demonstrations and the price of everything. Simon Constable, Forbes

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

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#France: The anti-Macron demonstrations and the price of everything. Simon Constable, Forbes
https://www.barrons.com/news/france-s-macron-dismisses-unrest-promises-drought-action-plan-1ab6b37b?refsec=topics_afp-news

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0:25.0

This is CBN Sight in the World.

0:26.8

I'm John Batcher to France, to the turmoil in France, not only in Paris,

0:31.6

but all parts.

0:33.2

Reporting is Simon Constable, who writes for barrens and forbs and other distinguished publications.

0:38.5

A week passed, Simon reported that he had visited the town of Albe in the south of France

0:44.0

and to lose as well.

0:45.6

And it's seen police gathered together not deployed in riot gear,

0:50.5

but no rioting.

0:51.8

Since then, there's been alarming news throughout France,

0:54.8

but outside of Paris of large groups of people protesting,

0:59.7

President Macron's initiative to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64,

1:05.2

which of course seems generous.

1:06.9

But then again, all anxiety in Europe is driven by the same story in the US,

1:12.3

a pending recession and large inflation numbers coming out of the pandemic,

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