in 1995 president jacques chirac's government scrapped its reform plans on. the 3 weeks of nationwide strikes in 2007 president nicolas sarkozy push through some changes but not without public protest macross plans faced opposition from many sections of society including transport workers and threatened rolling strikes or objection to the ideal would be to find a system that's fair for everyone it's a big ask some people were hired with certain benefits and now they're being told those advantages could be taken away this analyst says the president faces his biggest test yet. there's a risk that all the sectors join in health transport lawyers university then the government could fall i don't think that we are that point yet but the government certainly can't back down because it would be a political failure. mccall has already passed several controversial reforms and although he may feel confident after surviving months of yellow vest protests social discontent still lingers natasha butler al-jazeera paris. let's bring in our guests laura sliman e is a city c

only way to confront a prohibitively expensive future now that was the argument that president jacques chirac all for it back in 1995 the last time that the french president attempted to touch pensions 3 weeks of strikes then forced the government to give up nothing changed is president mack wrong looking at history repeating itself. a sea of strikers it's the largest mobilization across france in decades this time it's all about pension reforms for future generations. pension it's a kind of anybody afford to me. who don't have enough to make ends meet and this reform will make things worse. all cindy said the mission of my my free time myself in 10 years' time and i'm not sure i'll be able to survive on what mccall is proposing is that simple. however by thursday afternoon scenes from paris city center showed increasing violence groups of protesters smashed store windows and clashed with police among them members often anarchist groups the so-called black bloc the violence made visible to frustration many strikes supporters feel with the french government. and they keep it off that is it goi

rating of the restaurants close it's really bad what this all goes back to actually 1905 when jacques chirac failed to secure the whole painting for the pension plan so you think about the pension in france pensions in france thought were instituted in 19561956 a life expectancy expectancy was 50 to 60 years old it's 82 years old now the failure of european nations and we've had this across the world i mean we've had riots in russia and in the us has been talk about the pension issues that we have here on the funded is that what should have happened is when pensions were instituted they should have been indexed to life expectancy then we would have no problem i mean you wouldn't have riots and people said ok we're your baby's life. well that will be you know working until the baby will be working until they're 70 or 80 never to be writing about what their babies had to do they're writing about themselves now or in the in the near future so the underpinning of the problems in france is the failure to index life expectancy for pensions and people out living the pensions you were supposed to ha

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in 1995 president jacques chirac's government scrapped its reform plans after 3 weeks of nationwide strikes in 2007 president nicolas sarkozy pushed through some changes but not without public protest macross plans faced opposition from many sections of society including transport workers and threatened rolling strikes. the ideal would be to find a system that's fair for everyone it's a big ask some people were hired with certain benefits and other being told those advantages could be taken away this analyst says the president faces his biggest test yet. you think there's a risk that all the sectors joining in health transport lawyers university then the government could fall i don't think that we had that point yet but the government certainly can't back down because it would be a political failure. and mcconnell has already passed several controversial reforms and although he may feel confident after surviving months of yellow vest protests social discontent still lingers. well you would have seen the yellow vest protest is there the end of that story in the yellow vest protesters are in