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Strike-hit UK faces first rail stoppage of 2023
Strike-hit UK faces first rail stoppage of 2023
Business and Economy
by  AFP

UK rail staff disrupted the New Year return to work on Tuesday in the latest strike action by workers in a range of sectors over the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. Those striking in 2022 included rail, port, border force and postal workers along with lawyers, nurses and ambulance staff.

France signals flexibility in face of pension reform resistance
France signals flexibility in face of pension reform resistance
Business and Economy
by  AFP

The French government said Tuesday it could be flexible on its plan to raise the retirement age to 65, part of a hugely controversial pension reform project pushed by President Emmanuel Macron. The full details of the plan -- whose banner policy of raising the retirement age from the current level of 62 has been rejected out of hand by the unions -- are to be unveiled on January 10.