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President tours rural France in attempt to calm tensions over his unpopular pensions changes
Emmanuel Macron has warned that banging saucepans at him will not move France forward, as a hundred protesters bashing pots were pushed back by police when the French president visited a factory in Alsace in an attempt to contain anger over raising the pension age from 62 to 64.
About 100 members of the CGT and CFDT trade unions had gathered in front of the mayor’s office in the village of Muttersholtz on Wednesday, where Macron began a series of visits to rural France to try to calm tensions over his unpopular pensions changes.
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