Mass protests in France, strikes across Europe: consequences of political failure? | DW News
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- In France hundreds of thousands of people have been on the streets again in a direct challenge to the plans by president Emmauel Macron to make people work longer for their pensions. Demonstrations took place in cities across the country with the unions claiming more than four hundred and fifty thousand taking part in Paris alone. Authorities put that figure lower, but also put a record thirteen thousand police on duty. It's been two weeks since the president used a controversial constitutional power to bypass parliament and move on with steps to raising the retirment age from 62 to 64.
Unions have again been at the forefront of the protests. They've been angered by the government's outright rejection of calls for mediation in the crisis. Macron has been playing deaf and blind for nearly two months, ignoring week after week all the anger and all the demonstrations. And now, once the law has been passed, he agrees to meet with the unions to discuss the social agenda and so on. What he doesn’t understand, what the government does not understand, is that today the work force refuses to move on until we go back on the terms of this law."
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The French constitution should not allow the president to make unilateral laws on the retirement age without a vote in parliament. It's shocking.
I suspect you are correct
Does this have anything to do with the fact that African nations that were once French colonies are refusing to labor for French and their pensions but instead turned their heads to China?
@@b534hng I think it's more that African countries refused to work for the billionaired that managed to double their fortunes in a couple of years.
President taking or not unilateral decision isn't a problem in France. People are simply lazy, work less and earn more or have more social benefits, this is the way french are!.. They will strikes for anything.
By the way I am french and left the country 10 years ago, thks God, I took the right decision!
@Netizen Capet, You think that regime cares about the constitution or even people's freedoms?
You cannot govern a country without the support of the people, even in a totalitarian dictatorship.
Thinking you can do it in the pseudo democracy we live in is not stupidity, it is madness.
Don’t know where the boundary is until you cross it
However, this does not mean that everyone in the country has to agree with everything.
@@yasminesteinbauer8565 This really changes the laws, people are now asking themselves what are countries and do we even need them. There's groups in America and Germany trying to take governemnts down. The hierarchy is wicked.
Russia does i!t, china does it...and they will completely roll over us if we keep sticking to our spoiled lazy lives.
@@msdgroup9164 Regime change to what? Far left , far right, crawling on Xi Ping's lap? That will result in work weeks 6/7 ...enjoy it!
I wish this spirit were present in more countries.
Then we had a much better world where companies, CEOs and shareholders wouldn't have gotten away with bleeding dry workers over the last 50 years.
Most politicians haven't been working for the people for decades in most countries and to correct this, we need more protests and strikes.
The French know how to party.
Markus S - agree 100%.
"Consequences of political failure"? Nah... consequences of various corporations and goverments squeezing people to the max for the past 20+ years (with cost of living, pensions, when rich get richer and poor gets poorer, and this is just a tip of a "large iceberg"...). At least French now how to respond in this case. Good for them.
More strikes,,sure is going to solve problems,,i think not,,whether French people like it or not the retirement age is going to have to go up.
they would move the jobs overseas in a heartbeat…!
I wish we had the same spirit here in Canada as the France people
Stay strong France, the rest of the world will follow in your footsteps. Power to the people!
France is dead? Where is the protests?
The unfortunate truth is that the government doesnt feel the publics displeasure unless they cause a little chaos. Macron knew the public didnt want this law, but showed he doesn't care by rushing the law thru. What else can the people do if theyve tried other peaceful means?
The farmer doesn't listen to the sheep 🐑
Clearly the public should just have some more faith in their politicians and vote! (Sarcasm)
@@m.t.1616 One can only hope 😂
Democracy mate Democracy 😅
I guess that's the international language now.
No one listens to the people unless they set a couple police cars on fire.
We in Holland have to work until 67 and we never protested about it. We have allot to learn from our French brothers 💪
work 50 years and then die?
@@MrTweetyhack kind of yes
@Moritz Mytem Yes they are not sheep’s. But the protest won’t work. Our government will implement their plans if they like it or not.
Same in Australia. They increased the pension age from 65 to 67 and zip, nothing! We need a million French people to move up Australia!
@@josephj6521 And a so called social democratic government (AKA Labor) did it and not a peep!
America, this is how you do a protest
I admire the solidarity of the French people. They have not been successfully divided and conquered as so many of us around the world have been. There is a lesson to be learned here.
The French people can teach us how to unite against governments who make decisions against the will of the people...
Well said Summer,I'm surprised your message made it through.
Slava France. 😊
The reform is good
@@AlexanderLittlebears would you explain more? It's good for a boss, yes, but the majority is not the boss.
@@Trueroot
Because the majority don't have the acumen or wisdom to be one.
All the horror in the movie industry doesn't compare to the real evil in our governments.
You should watch how the UN Security Council rejected the motion to independently investigate the Nordstream bombing. Remember that every time your electric bill is paid, the people in power voted not to investigate the main cause why its 5-10x what it used to be.
@@Truthorfib The Nordstream bombing was Russia. Only a tinfoil hat thinks otherwise. But yes, "our" politicians don't care what the people wants.
@@Truthorfib It was Putin
@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 Tell me your reasoning as to why it was Putin? Cause you do know Russia spent billions of dollars on building that pipeline and they have can just turn it off if they wanted to which is cheaper than blowing it up. Plus the gas that was released from the pipeline was worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Russia. In all aspects it is unfavorable to Russia so what makes you think its Russia?
Not to mention a Pulitzer awardee (an award that most journalists could only dream of receiving) Seymour Hersh, reported that it was the US and Norway that did it.
Wherein both countries have something to gain from the sabotage. The US for obvious reasons and Norway for higher Natural Gas sales.
The countries where governments make sure this can't happen are the true evil.
When all options are exhausted what choice do the people have but to take to the streets and protest ? Politicians ignore the public and their wishes at their peril . Never truer than in France .
We are slaves to the system. Slavery was never abolished; it was mastered, by letting us think we are free.
I’m already supposed to retire at 65, but I think by the time I become 50, I’ll hear it’s about to go 70! I hope we also go on the streets if this happens! And in my country, I cannot manage my own pension by law!
You’re right, slavery just looks different now. It was never abolished, biggest trickery played on the common folk
Why did you not start your own business be productive and make more money
There are no freebies in the world
@@samson2322 People who say slavery was never abolished don't know what slavery in that time felt like.
Working class defends its honor
А как защита рабочим классом своих интересов поможет спасти экономику Европы? Если труд еще сильнее подорожает, то это только большую нагрузку окажет на экономику. Европейцы должны обрести гражданскую сознательность и отказаться от хорошей жизни на несколько десятилетий чтобы спасти Европу. В России все ок
@@araratmountain5343 yeah, so France should stop giving more than required to the European Union and focus on their own country?
By the way, everything is good in Russia but your HDI is constantly dropping and so is the economy.
Honor, can you explain? The reform is a necessity, there are 5 solutions to longer life expectancy and fever births. Die sooner, have more babies, allow much more immigrants, increase budget deficit, or raise retirement age. Budget deficit and immigration just pushes the problem down the road, to higher magnitude in future, once the immigrants themselves age, they also need immigrants to maintain their own retirement age. Pick your poison, I would be interested in hearing about your pick.
I keep hearing French are upset not at the reform itself, but rather that unions and people were not negotiated with. But this looks like an excuse, same options would haven been put on table.
@@Trueroot
France costs the EU money, it's a net recipient.
Only western-european net recipient, by the way.
That's before we even get into French stupidity like moving the EU parliament to Straatsburg or bannin environmentally sound Pulse-Fishing in favour of 1920's French chain-fishing
@@Trueroot а я не уверен, что Франция что-то дает Евросоюзу, по крайней мере больше, чем получает. Это не Германия. Евросоюз просто не всегда может принимать те решения, которые для него выгодны, иногда он вынужден принимать те решения, которые выгодны США. Пока в США все хорошо это не страшно, но когда в США проблемы - они будут решать их за счет Европы. А сейчас проблемы есть. Т.ч. чего Франция точно не может себе позволить, так это повышать зарплаты. А индексам всевозможным вроде HDI я бы на твоем месте не особо доверял - я пытался погрузится в методологию расчетов, могу сказать, что это все крайне спекулятивные показатели - некие инструменты социального убеждения. С экономикой да, есть сложности, но вот эти эмбарго в целом помогают ее диверсифицировать
The people in the USA are sleeping, it has become much worse here, home absolutely un-affordable , yet people are not coming onto the streets
Homs are affordable in the US. It's just that many refuse to move from the Northeast and West Coast.
just must read this book just came out "poverty by America" by Matthew Desmond
@@shauncameron8390 The homes may be cheaper in some horrible cities but there are not many economic opportunities there so it's useless to move to Ohio or wherever.
You could move from an expensive area to a cheaper area but your wages will be cheaper too
Governments are supposed to represent the people, not exploit them!
Politicians only pretend to represent the people on election day, then when in office they represent the big multinationals/
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.”
France is still leading the world amid fighting for our freedom. Go France ! We're watching you from Japan. Do not give up, you're an inspiration for the whole World.
France is leading Europe into a ravine, not able to withstand China. Lazyness will get the West over the abyss.
You japanese should do the same to your government and demand your government stop helping USA in Ukraine war.. Dont forget you were victim of USA ...
@@buentaste The only that needs to be stopped is FASCIST RUSSIA. The day France stops helping Ukraine would be the proof that Vichy mentality is overtaking. There is no place for fascist Russia on the world stage, period. Japan understands that.
@@buentaste How was Japan a victim of the USA?
@@SurpriseMeJT well hello there, have you heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombing?
Finally people fight back!!!! ❤
Experts agree that Macron's step is necessary.
But... for too long too little or nothing had been done for those normal people, the workers in job, the families, basically all the "normal" people. All had been done for the wealthy, the economy, and those disadvantaged. The common man had been left out and forgotten.
Fight back against what? The economic reality that longer lifespans will leave pension funds insolvent without reform?
@@juancisneros9238 they stop sending money to ucraine and focus on local economy
....guess what? It's not in your country
@@juancisneros9238 😃👏👏👏👏Muy bien puesto en plabras.
I think people all over the world are fed up with the government
Yeah that's true, but as long as they keep getting away with it they will keep doing it.
There will always be a Government and always people who disagree with them.
there fed up with capitalist.
Yes, we've been since the dawn of all governments actually. And we will continue to be till every one of then dies.
Anyone else notice how whenever there's calls to "balance the books" it always is a talk about cutting public services, public spending and social safety nets and never about a rollback of the tax cuts to corporations and billionaires that created the need to balance the books?
It's more than clear that neoliberal politics put profit margins for those who are already absurdely wealthy above the wellbeing of a society, we need to invent a new system and leave behind our steam age economics.
How will the 1% lift their bootheel off of the 99% without a class war ?
While food, fuel and bills have risen up to 100% in many cases, workers’ salaries have not been increased by a cent in Europe
simply wrong, wages goes up every year
@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 For many industries that is just plain wrong, and for those industries that do see a marginal increase in pay, it's never in any proportion to the inflation of prizes.
@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 The salery in Germany is the Same since the early 90' and now It's going down do to Inflation
@@der_gipsyking7512 Not true, maybe low paying start jobs, But a lot of People has good salerys in Germany (I have worked there)
@@magiv4205 Just wrong, So workers (acording to you) earn less than the did 100 or 50 years ago . No it wrong. Usaly wages go up a littel more than inflation. When inflation goes down again?, wages will catch upp again in a few years. If you raise wages the same (or more) than inflation?, Inflation would just continue and money and wages would be worthless like in Venezuela or Zimbabwe. You make a pick ?
Love it, power to the people 💪🏻
You mean the Elite
Eh its just the french protesting
@@Marex5341 Not a new thing whenever a new protests happens people like him either say power to the people or people are waking up or we should ding in our country or they are from a certain country that is the Hotspot for the same thing (spoiler alert most of them are Americans, pretending to be from some other country). This happened in 2019, 2020's covid/vaccine protests and now this. Nothing would happen once these protests are over everything would be back to normal.
All the power to the people!
And then??? Chaos.
Russian troll
@@Serendip98 US bot
What for just an increase on the retirement by two years 😂
@@jasmineshilar76 Вся власть Советам!
at the end when he says oh the government has no problem printing money for banks but not for the old people that worked all their life to add to the system
Nailed it. Yes. Printing money and that rising inflation. Slowly starve the 99% percent and make a beaten, docile underclass to serve the Upperclass. Just thought of Russian History. The Serfs & the Royalty. SMDH.
"You don't need to pay pensions if people can't reach pension age"
Every politician that lives in luxury on the backs of people bellow - Brilliant solution !
Power to the people!!!
No, capitalists have the money to wait them out.
Said Vladimir Lenin
@@pavelvasilevich2785 great guy
@@pavelvasilevich2785 he was a hero. Gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette.
@MSD Group It will take a lot though for that to happen. The French were only pushed at the time to do something when bread became unaffordable. Hence they started eating snails. It takes that degree of hardship for people to do something
Stand up workers and common people!
Time to throw away the chains of the greedy politicians and billionaries
💪💪💪
Isnt Macron both?
@@LeonSteelpaw of course he is!
Greedy? People are living longer. It only makes sense to delay retirement a little bit to avoid pension funds becoming insolvent. Then again, socialists never were good at economics.
🦗🦗🦗🦗 In America
@@LeonSteelpaw what?? Gay or Tranny??
I believe he is undercover 🧑🤝🧑.Like they say in Spanish, si no se la pone en la boca? LA SOBA!....
They always raise the retirement age in bad times, but they never reverse it in prosperous times. It’s a one way track to work until you drop, they might give you five years to hobble around in your stressed out broken old body, if we’re lucky. No, I think it’s time to say no to the toddlers who keep wanting it all their own way. Across the board.
Yes, they want everything. They suffer from malignant greed.
When is this coming to the US, the home prices are up 50% in 2 years
When is this coming to us? nfl,nba,nhl,mlb.........if there are much less people in the stadiums ,you can start hoping
It's what happens when too much profit goes to the shareholders and not enough to paying wages. You can only squeeze people and costs so much to maintain a "healthy" share price. Not exactly Bioscience.
France had a bank bailout?
@@nunyabidness3075 it doesn't have to for this to be true. It is the natural flow of this current system
@@Chloe-dv9ns I’m a bit confused. Someone has edited something, or I put my comment in the wrong thread. Amazingly, your comment makes even less sense in response.
Any system where a central government is making the terms for people’s retirements is going to be unfair. The 20th century gave all the evidence needed on economics one really needs. The longer and more government intervenes in an industry, eventually it destroys the efficiency of that industry. Social security style retirement systems are never going to be efficient, and eventually become political wrecking balls.
Of course, all the interventions lead to costs of many things getting out of balance so that when a big stress comes along, like a pandemic, things start to breakdown. This should be telling people that social security style systems are inherently flawed, but instead they attack capitalism? This is just evidence of ignorance, foolishness, and too much romanticism.
Oh, I'm not sure if you genuinely asked if France bailed out their banks, but I was saying bail outs don't need to happen for capitalists to incentivize profits. And over time those profits don't come from "improvement" of product or anything, rather, by squeezing the workers for productivity, or "cutting redundancy" etc. Ah.
@@Chloe-dv9ns Somewhere I saw a comment saying this is what happens when you bail out banks and then squeeze people with lower wages and higher costs. I admit ignorance as to what sort of assistance plan France had for the pandemic, but if it’s like the US debacle that would explain some of the emotion.
A lovely scene to see those in power tremble in fear of the people😊
"Hopefully". They keep acting like they own us .
no they have nuclear weapons, but this reform is nessary, the goverment wound´t pay because you are lazy.
You must have Xray specs, I can't see anyone trembling.
❤ macron ❤
Solidarity! ❤
Keep going france..
Such an amazing revelation - with the USA not having 1 protest when working retirement age was torqued up to 65. This being that the average American works 40 - 60 hours a week, with 10 days vacation time that people usually just take as a payout & keep working through those 10 days. Now there are the people of France showing "Our work-force will NOT move on & we will organize, mobilize, & triumph because we are in the right!" They are a people whose unions work for & with them - while in America, there are union heads who are vassal servants of the corporates, not for the sympathetic betterment of the 'blue collar' workers. RESIST! DEFY!
An excellent example of American ignorance; Full SS benefits age was originally set at 65 when it was first established in 1935, but changed in 1983 to depend on the year you were born. In fact, anyone born after 1960 has to wait until age 67 for full benefits. Also, anyone can take early benefits at age 62, but the percentage that you lose, again, depends on the year you were born. How can so many Americans not know this?!?!?!
What makes it worse average life expectancy in US is 76 years meaning majority of people literally work till they die without a chance to even have retirement.
We pay 40-70% taxes here in Europe depending on that type of taxes you want to take into consideration (property taxes, income taxes, utility taxes, sale tax, TV Monitor & Car license tax and various fines. You would think with this level of taxation we could have lower retirement age despite you americans working more hours, Europeans work more productive (mechanization/computerization).
In Asia, we work till we are 80....if we don't we get bored..
@@Zyzyx442 That's because originally those taxes were made to cover everything, but more EU copied US worse it get. First mistake we allowed business man in to our governments, second mistake we allowed corruption with extra steps in US Hedge funs in Eu we have these "Management companies" I forgot the exact name. And suddenly taxes became profit politicians can takes for themselves and all our systems started to get gutted bit by bit until they are finally privatized.
Australia needs to wake up and do the same
Bring this energy to the USA.
Here in germany we also need this type of energy
The USA already have this energy. Sadly, only the supremacists groups like BLM, feminists, Antifa, etc.
French people is so powerful to fight their real freedom. Great!
They surrendered to the Germans in 1940 just 6 weeks are being invaded.
Put simply, How the people are being governed is even more important than the topic in dispute. That seems to be a real political pandemic at present.
You work your whole life and then they try to deny your retirement benefits
How about raised tax by 1% to 1.3% and move the retirement age to 61 year old
No, that would be reasonable and a policy conducted in good faith. Such persons and proposals have no place in modern demagoguery and plutocracy.
@Mark so you would also end retirement and a lot of other benefits altogether
@@Mark-ne1yu bad idea.
Tax can be abused but it can also be used to handle some of the issues that occur as a result of the way things work.
Remove all taxes and what you'll get is a great funneling of the overall wealth being generated into fewer and fewer hands.
The majority will face wage stagnation as long as the overall growth of wealth across the nation is sufficient to sustain continued price rises in key sectors such as housing. Eventually this will lead to a national "economic seizure", at which point a fair number of the ones who managed to get the lions share will jump ship to greener pastures and leave the rest to deal with the fallout.
One of the most effective ways to prevent this is progressive taxation.
Obviously you try to ensure that the taxes are well used but point is zero tax should not be seen as something that will yield a good national situation.
Rich people calling for tax cuts are very dangerous to national stability
@@Mark-ne1yu And what system would that be?
Tax burden in France and most European countries is already too high. The only real solution to the pension crisis in western world is to have more babies ASAP.
I wish our United States people can do this to defend our right.
One hundred likes. Breaking the railroad strike was the last straw. Can you imagine if that happened in France?!?
Last time they tried was January 6
@@insertname1841 And Americans cried and want their daddy government to do something 🙄. The U.S citizens are a joke
People in the US are too busy hating one another to hate their government. And that was all planned
@@bbpersonalpage1613 General rule of thumb, as long as the people are comfortable, the government is safe. Americans to a certain degree are still comfortable and just want to get on with their lives and take care of their own families. It takes a massive issue for people to unite and overthrow the leadership. Like the French not being able to buy bread and had to eats slugs.
Why aren’t the police/security forces standing with the other workers? Are they on a different retirement plan?
Yes ... 52 years ....
US networks should invite this US journalist. Because the level of coverage of the situation in France has been a caricature in America. He is well-informed and explained the complexity of the situation very well
I was actually surprised by how accurate he was. I'm French and it's rare to witness a US journalist getting things right.
Be fair guys, if you refuse to work for two extra years how will the billionaires ever become trillionaires???
😅
Work more
When citizen loose confidence in their government, this is hard to bring it back. But this is the result of years of lies, politic of little friends,misconduct, ...
Bad omens
increase people salary and no extend retirement age. stop aid to Ukraine and use the money to fill the pension gap
Macron must resign from office. He is out of touch with his country and is not trusted to lead this nation moving forward. Macron's UNILATERAL actions are unacceptable.
Time is running out before France descends into fire, chaos and civil break down.
France MUST embrace this 1789 moment. The past is prologue..REFORM French government & LEADERSHIP!!
@@georgekung2003utube the money we are sending to Ukraine is a pittance in comparison to the costs of the retirement, this will also cost us much longer than the war in Ukraine
Arrogance and over reach IMO
Yall are lazy. You barley work as it is... 6 weeks paid vacation, every holiday off, 32 hour work weeks, free health care. woooww retirement age is now 64 big whoop...let's not take into account people are living much longer now. Get back to freaking work.
that young man Cole is a very good reporter, in-depth information simply explained
Yes.
I wish my country stood up to my government for making us basicly work until 68 for older generations and 72 years old for my younger generation. I wont be able to enjoy old age and it scares me. "We have so good healthcare"
I thought DB was already striking for years now, considering the quality of their service lol
DB is the best car advertisment Germany could wish for.
Thank you to the 1st speaker for having mentioned that the Republicans who did not vote for the motion of censure did not necessarily all do so out of support for the Government but out of political calculation, so that their party did not lose too many seats. Besides, the motion of censure does not call for the dissolution of the Assembly, but only of the Government; it was Emmanuel Macron who brandished the threat of the dissolution of the Assembly if the motion of censure was adopted, precisely to cool the Republicans (who would have much to lose) from voting for it.
😂....and you still believe in politicians.
This is why they are killing America 🇺🇸 the EX BEST country, SLOWLY
I suppose it would be too much to expect elected officials to vote according to the wishes of the citizens affected over their petty self interest.
Macron should have learned from italian politics where the most hated reforms are usually passed during August when people are on holidays 😅
😂
Hhh 😂😂
Vive La France 🇲🇫,viva The French people.Bravo🙏
"Viva" is an italian word. In french it is "vive"
@@thibaultmerlin merci beaucoup.🙏
Vive le article 49.3 🇫🇷🥂
May have to do with raising the age for the pensions and giving tax cuts to corporations to pay less taxes.
@@asgdhgsfhrfgfd1170
Because that means 100% of the people who make an income from capital gains, will simply move it to Switzerland, Luxemburg or Andorra, and France gets nothing.
And also because capital gains is less easy to scale up. It requires a LOT of money to create income from that. If you own € 3 million, you can't live off of capital gains.
...While if you're an effing lazy union thug in France, you can easily work until you're 65. You don't have to retire at age 49 and steal from the younger generations who work hard.
👌
From a French struggler.
Indeed it is not about pensions any longer.
It’s about standing for our rights to live a good life in a sustainable way, because we have only few years for the massive changes we need just to make the global warming livable.
You need to work more not less, if you want a good life, all other countrys work far more than France does. You cant be lazy and expect the goverment to pay for you not to work. Nobody want to invest in France with a "workforce" like this, That was the reson Australia canceled the Submarine order (100 Billion €), nothing was done, workers was on vation or strike all the time. France has a massiv debt, that it needs to pay, so you have to work.
@@mabuhayproductionltd3627typical sheep “you can’t be lazy and expect…” and that is where you are wrong and need to stop talking 😂
@@clodovyasylvionna Try to see how much you get by being lazy and dont do a thing ? Those money the pensionist will have/demand ? has to be paid by someone else, But No one will pay more, so the money isn´t there , so its impossible would you like to see France end up like Greece ?? Goodluck with that
@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 you do not know what you are talking about.
@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 What a coincidence, nobody cares about submarines.
Common sense fact people are living longer in the US social security is 661/2 , what are the disparities, in the US government employees get huge benefits over 100,000 a year in pensions while standard social security is much lower, why do government employees get so much more?
Politicians are filling there pockets while we stay poor. It’s not fair
Then stop being poor and work for your money instead of coming onto UA-cam and moan. The fact you are poor is because you are lazy
You should watch how the UN Security Council rejected the motion to independently investigate the Nordstream bombing. Remember that every time your electric bill is paid, the people in power voted not to investigate the main cause why its 5-10x what it used to be.
@@Truthorfib Yes Putins war
If you are poor it's no ones fault but yours. What you achieve in life is your responsibility, do whatever it takes to be successful, that's what winners do.
@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 I'm not sure if you've even researched anything about this war if this is your view. How much time have you independently researched the history of this yourself? Tell me why do you think its Putin? Did you do any research yourself or is it because its what was told to you by the reliable and honest trustworthy politicians and mainstream media?
Power to the people! Long live the People of France!
Viva La France!
@@Truthorfib vi va la revolucion!
That's precisely why State retirement age has to rise, people are living longer. If they didn't there would be no need to increase it.
Yes.
Bravo for French people!! God bless you!!
"It's the poor politics". No, it's not. It's the policy. Even if they'd handed out cakes the reaction would have been the same. It's not a failure of communication, it's a failure of policy.
The politicians know what they are doing. Meanwhile in Sweden striking gets illegal.
In the U.S, we have an array of relatively cheap distractions for that failure of policy. You know, Fast food instead of cake from Marie Antoinette
For all the valid criticisms of french people, they sure know how to fight for what they believe in
I live in France its definitely like that here, its a different place but its ok if u dont let the govt bother you because beaurocracy is in everything here!!!! You are followed, monitored, manhandled, its a nightmare really they own you. If id of known id of gone elsewhere but i dont work here im not french in a way im lucky. I love the place and people i feel for them.
The French surrendered in 6 weeks after being invaded during 1940. Obviously they didn't believe in it.
That should be happening world wide.
Most other countries have a higher State Pension age and are envious that the French have had it so easy.
Workers of the world unite!
Vladimir Lenin
@@pavelvasilevich2785 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Cringe champagne socialist
@@pavelvasilevich2785 you really like that guy huh
And toil the fields until you drop dead like the workers in Cambodia under Pol Pot.
this is not strictly macron's fault, this has been a slow burn to undermine working class. macron sidestepping normal policies to farce this through, that is his fault. There are other options to raising retirement age. people have been working for 40+ years and now you think you can just change the game?
Barley working for 40 years is still barley working. People of France don't know what it means to actually work
@@user-qv4np3ur5w going from 62 to 64 isn't a big deal. It's just being lazy. If it was say 62 to 72 well sure be mad but that isn't the case at all.
@@user-qv4np3ur5w No its all about age. It is well known political suicide in French politics to mess with the retirement age because theyre so freaking lazy over there regardless if its warranted. (Ya know because people are living much longer.) Which is why the policy was enacted the way it was.
Macron doesn't have to worry about reelection but the rest of parliament isn't going to risk their necks on this issue because they want to remain in power.
@@MikeJones__Who French people don't know how to work hard and that's how they became the most productive in Europe. They are lazy and that's why they are manifesting, losing their salaries. It's not only about the age but also on the fact that Macron lied, forced it and that this reform is absolutely not needed for France. Macron is just undoing social progress, but yeah, French are lazy.
@@MikeJones__Who Well if you wanna die early because of stress just to make your boss even more profit than they already have, be my guest.
workers of the world, unite! the paris commune shall rise again
The legislation may have been the final catalyst but this is evidence of general /total lack of confidence in those governing. I empathize and identify with the complete frustration. Thank you for the whole story.💫
Yup. Lack of confidence. Well said.
I wish this happened in the USA.
Where were you in 2020? Oh, yes, this behavior was banned January 7th, 2021.
You must unite the workers starting by your class! Alone you have no bargain power to negotiate, it's just more precarization of work, more hours and less pay!
@@stapleman007 fascists storming the capital to install a reactionary corporate ghoul has nothing to do with working families. Our corrupt bipartisan congress blocked rail workers from striking and gave them 0 sick days.
Those Trump sickos hate progressives like Rashida Talib who actually stood up for rail workers rights.
@@stapleman007 you American? Then you should know that Republicans have banned this going back to the Regan era, the January 7th thing didn't make anything illegal either, seeing as sedition and trying to kill the house/senate has been illegal for quite some time.
@@stapleman007 no it was not, but you can´t just riot against the constitution and the courts. Its legal to demonstrate peacefully
My god, finally, I hope this will be a European revolution.
Revolution for what? Low retirement? I don't think so.
To chasten lagarde uvdl and Schwab
I believe in honest work, with honest recompense
@Christopher B. Braxton You are wrong. The only way we can defeat tiranny is showing that we are indeed different, that democracy works and that we can make things better for everyone. We need to change how things are, you cannot have the 85% of assets owned by a mere 10% and tell the population that they have to work till they die because there isn't enough money for the pension. You cannot use special power and skip a parliamentary vote because your reform wouldn't pass, that's not how democracy work. French are right, all European should lean from them and seek a change.
@@Chillerll No, a revolution where the 10% of population that own the 85% of everything will finally pay the right bit, allowing everyone else to live a decent life.
This needs to happen in Australia now
Workers of the world unite!!
They should be working instead
And grateful they has a
Job to retire from
@@SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz OK bootlicker
@@KarlSnarks
Okay, grifter!
@@SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz "They should be working instead
And grateful they has a
Job to retire from"
Username checks out 🤮
@@shauncameron8390 Lol, as if grifting in the youtube comment section would be profitable
We must show Them that the people together has the power!!!
The people aren't together though, very few are protesting.
-French people elects a rich banker as President
-Also French people: how dare you screw us over?
the retirement age is france is absurdly low for developed countries. and it is still low after this law. this might be a surprise to some people, but things cost money.
So you don’t want a tyrant making unchallenged decisions about how money is spent do you?
Good point, but you should know that all the French press and media are owned by billionaires pro-Macron. The whole political class has been in court cases for decades, so people are disgusted and no longer vote. Very easy to stole the election.
64 is hardly being screwed over.
@@stuartmenziesfarrant there is nothing inherently wrong about laws being passed unchallenged. france has a representative democratic system.
That's also not what the protests are about.
The solution is to just let the French retire when they want with a max pension cap, and when they run out of pension, let them figure it out. They have one of the youngest retiree ages in the Western world.
This is not true there is a big difference between the official retirement age and the real retirement age in France because you need to work 41 years (now 43) in order to be retired. In fact most french work longer than the brit or the germans…
is there a reason we never get the name of the hosts/anchors?
i've personally witnessed almost 3 generations of technological progress . Somehow never in this time could we afford to make peoples lives better ; now the common man is being asked to sacrifice what he was promised .
People live much better than they did even 100 years ago. Even 50 years. Humanity is in its most privileged era in history. Life expectancy keeps climbing.
@@gfys756 that is what I'm getting at . life expectancy has actualy been falling for decades now . What you describe is the trajectory up until I was born , in the first world the average citizen has lost ground over the past 50 years .
Exactement Monsieur vous avez tout à fait raison!!!
@@gfys756 faut encore avoir la santé aussi. tout dépend du métier exercé. au bureau ou au chantier?
@@gfys756 life expectancy hasn’t been climbing. It’s screwed statistics. Infant mortality was higher 200 years ago. If you take that away, people have lived into their 70s and 80s for thousands of years.
Especially the past 100 years, life expectancy hasn’t changed. These are excuses to make people work until they’re almost dead.
It's not at all necessary to raise the retirement age... simply tax the wealthy at the same rates as they used to be taxed in the 20th century.
Then the wealthy will give up their citizenship and move their assets elsewhere with lower taxes.
Or maybe don't be lazy... what about that? I wanted to invest in France until I saw how much they tax the capital lol. Billions of dollars avoided France cause of high taxes on capital. That's less funds for companies. That's less growth for the economy. Healthy life expectancy in France is 72 years old. You still have 10 years to live life. France needs to invest the money in education, in the youth.
Oh please ...
@@Never-ending_ Well said
Better tax the politician much much much more.
Bruh the way the cops charged at the start of the video, as if it's some medieval battle ahaha
This isn't just France it's everywhere people want a body of government that is representative of them on main Street. It seems that every country has slipped down the stairs when it comes to representing the actual people.
Benjamin Fox hits the nail on the head - the combination of “austerity measures” with huge bank bailouts is perfect a recipe for unrest.
Europe taking steps to become more like Latín América
00:52 - 00:56 have no audio?
Exactly same problem in Singapore but protest not allowed strictly not allowed just let them swallow your money quietly .
Man, being a singaporean who lives in the EU now, I do respect the French for their protests and strikes.
Even their national anthem is really lit!
Power to the people
The government is for the people!! Proud of those who are protesting! You go France 🇫🇷
unsustainable public expenditures, low working hours, low efficiency, high income tax and inheritance tax, everything relaying on state coverage... come on... is a broken system
Thank you Mr. Strangler. Nice to hear younger voices.
Quite ironic when European Union wished for this very exact same thing to happen in Russia few months ago. I'm not a Russian supporter per se, just pointing out the obvious.
this is beautiful!!!!
Tighten up your belts peasants you need to keep us rich. Classic.
the whole system needs to be changed, wages getting eaten, while big corp gets even richer and more powerful, politics is also full of
double tongued spineless hypocrites. nothing left to be than disgusted and angry, fight back for your rights and freedom. may the people rise
Feeling like Taxation without representation as when Americans shook off the English Colonial rule. Corporations everywhere pay less tax, while the Individuals taxes are high and feed that bureaucratic machine.
The base problem is the dramatic increase in cost of living helped, in large part, by EU sanctions which have back-fired. Example is Russian diesel which has been sanctioned. This has resulted in super cheap diesel in Asia and super expensive diesel in Europe. 😅😅😅
I wish the people in my country would be at least half as passionate and proud as the French
Germany? The Germans used to actually be a proud and powerful nation under Bismarck. Unfortunately you have a Sulky Liver Sausage as Chancellor. It would take another Bismarck to get Germany back in track
The same French who surrendered to the Germans in 1940, just 6 weeks after being invaded.
@@Truthorfib No, not Germany. Not even close. My name isn't even german wtf
I think that one of the real culprit of all this messy is coming from the steady increasing military budget and government spending. Unproductive, Useless and unnecessary money.
Make no mistake, other countries governments will be watching this to see what they can get away with and how the public will react. If these protests fail it'll bolster every government to change laws without public vote.
That's right 💯
In Australia the retirement age pension is 67
Why all the complaints?
Yeah but I think your Human Development Score is higher so you guys don't crash as bad at that age
French are lazy.
Perhaps the way it was implemented in an autcratic IMO way
The question should be, Why are the Australians not complaining?
67 same as Sweden but that doesnt make that right!
Its for many people way to difficult to work at those age
😢😢😢
This is the true beauty of France 🇫🇷 the will of people ❤❤❤
but this isnt just about the pension
People protest: we want old law for retirement
Government: we mobilize more security
Is the proposed change in pension age an economic necessity?
Nope ... It's an ideological necessity for macron the banker
@@marilenaganea6578 lol let’s keep throwing money at old people. I feel sad for future generations.
US citizens will behave the same way when the time comes
@@ordinaryhuman2511 The future generations will also have those pensions ; your point is invalid.
It's not about generations, it's about economic and social classes
Yes, it absolutely is. France already has one of the lowest retirement ages and a aging population. Notice how everyone against it is just saying empty phrases like class war and the rich need to pay for everything? This is the level of economic understanding that these protesters have. It is a mad house.
No
Political failure, economic fantasy and situational stupidity, lot of that going around in the West.
Mass immigration and open borders costs money . Wonder how many of these protestesters cheered for that while thier country raped 3rd world countries for economic gain .
We are all been played . Wef . Never have I seen so much created divide and stupidity
@@roybatty6857
Also welfare states.
Bad managemnet yes .....but not only in the west .....if you know a country to be proud of (historically) with a wise management and a good life quality for everyone ..... pls share it with us 😉
Keep dreaming vlad
Power to the people! Governments are servants of the people. Not the corporations. It's getting out hand in the world. Its good to see some resistance. Here in America our government sold us out a long time ago and the majority of people don't even see it or don't care. We are too busy fighting amongst ourselves about petty issues. I wish we can stand united like yall in France. Keep it up.
About time these criminals (politicians and bankers)are held accountable for their actions
But they say, they are sanctioning Rusia, glad to see people are realising who are the ones sanctioned
wrong, are u a paid Putin agent?
@@mabuhayproductionltd3627 no I just have common sense
@@paolojimenez8078 Lol you are blind, Yes it has some cost, but thats better than be a slave and bow to dictators. We have a good life in the West, much better than in Russia where you can´t say anything, being forced to kill people in Ukraine (and your self). Better to have the war now, than in the future. Are all Mexicans like you ? bought for a few pesos lol