On March 23, 2023, France experienced widespread labor strikes and protests in response to President Emmanuel Macron's pension reforms, causing major disruptions in transportation and 400 high schools being blockaded by students. Videos of un-emptied dumpsters set alight and police firing tear gas were seen on social media. The pension reforms have been met with public anger, and the government is yet to comment on the protests, leaving the future of the reforms uncertain.
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Thousands of people took to the streets of France on Saturday night to protest President Emmanuel Macron's plan to raise the state pension age without a parliamentary vote. The largely non-violent protests included clashes with police and the throwing of an effigy of Macron into a fountain. Municipal authorities have banned rallies on Paris’s central Place de la Concorde and nearby Champ-Elysees, but it is unclear how long the protests will continue.