"French pension crisis threatens Macron's leadership"

French President Emmanuel Macron's leadership is being contested both in parliament and on the streets of major cities as he pushes to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. His move to force a pension reform bill through without a vote has infuriated the political opposition and could hamper his government's ability to pass legislation for the remaining four years of his term. The situation's only winners are far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party, “which continues its strategy of both ‘getting respectable’ and opposing Macron,” and France's labor unions.