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Five key questions about the French pensions reform

The planned reforms to France’s retirement schemes that have provoked strikes and protests this month are important to put the country’s pensions and public finances on a more sustainable footing. But in the short term, they have few economic benefits and potentially carry a high political cost for Macron.

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