A look back at the time when French demonstrators were able to thwart government reform plans

Protests, strikes, and unrest are expected to continue as both sides remain steadfast in their opposition to President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform. To better understand the current impasse, FRANCE 24 examines the two previous times unions successfully pushed the government to back down on a systemic change: during the pension reform debate in 1995 and the youth labor law debate in 2006. Acrid political struggle symbolized by the stenc....