France awaits ruling on Macron's pension reform as protests continue.

The Constitutional Council, France's highest constitutional authority, is set to rule on the legality of legislation to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64, which has sparked widespread protests across the country. The court could approve, tweak, or reject the pension change, and also rule on whether to allow a citizens' referendum on a proposal to cap the retirement age at 62. French President Emmanuel Macron's government used executive powers to push the bill through last month without a vote in the lower house of parliament, a move that critics decried as presidential overreach.