the pandemic. lawmakers in paris have approved the wording of a proposal by french president emma norma craw, to raise the retirement age by 2 years to 64. it closed the way for a controversial bill to now be submitted for a final vote in parliament as early as thursday of the move came of thousands of protesters took to the streets of cities across france in a last ditch attempt to convince lawmakers not to back it a final show of force against french president emmanuel, my cons unpopular pension reforms across france. protesters turned out in their hundreds of thousands desperate to force a last minute turnaround by lawmakers union leaders in not said they had no intention of backing down. i thought reform is bad to day. it would be bad, wanted be inverted for or personally by force. so we'll keep fighting for, it's completely draw a tech ordered actually the raising of the retirement age remains unacceptable to us. the protests were largely peaceful though there were some skirmishes with police. oh, according to surveys, more than 2 thirds of the population opposed. michael's plans to rai