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After a rocky start, François Bayrou held onto his position as prime minister in February by making France a promise. Trade unions and business lobbies, he said, would be able to hold a series of negotiations to hash out possible amendments to President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial 2023 reform to France’s retirement system. Adopted without a parliamentary vote, Macron’s pension law extracted savings solely on the backs of late-career workers, increasing the retirement age for public pensions from sixty-two to sixty-four while safeguarding employers and wealthy retirees from new charges.
