"French Unrest: Pension Protests and Clashes with Security Forces"

French unions continue to protest against the government's pension reform, with activists barging into the Paris headquarters of luxury goods company LVMH and disrupting garbage collection and river traffic. The Constitutional Council is set to rule on the legality of the bill that will raise the state pension age by two years to 64. If approved, the government hopes this will put an end to the protests, which have at times turned violent. Macron has said he will organise a meeting with unions after the Council's decision to work on other proposals, but unions say this will be short-lived if he is not ready to discuss withdrawing the pension reform.