back to paris, want to show you some pictures on the streets because large crowds have gathered throughout the day, but they are digesting the news that s come from the constitutional council that has effectively given emmanuel macron the go ahead to change the pension age in france from 62 to 64. we ve had two months and three weeks of looking at diaries of protests right across france, cities of large numbers, large coalitions of students and unions, of workers all against the move. now they were hoping through the protests that it would change the government s mind that didn t work, they were then hoping the constitutional courts would put a break or change the government s mind, that hasn t worked. so president emmanuel macron making it clear he intends to put this on the statute books in the next 48 hours, so having waited for this constitutional council decision, he now wants to get on with it. he s invested so much of his personal capital, he s determined to get this
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hoping the constitutional courts would put a break or change the government s mind, that hasn t worked. so president emmanuel macron making it clear he intends to put this on the statute books in the next 48 hours, so having waited for this constitutional council decision, he now wants to get on with it. he s invested so much of his personal capital, he s determined to get this change. he thinks french workers need to work for more years, he says the country simply cannot afford it with an ageing population to have a retirement age of 62, and i suppose there will be viewers around the world watching this thinking not quite understanding why there is such a protest for a change of age to 64 when they look at what s going on in this country or in other countries. but so much unhappiness
states, in particular at a time when those values are being challenged by russia and ukraine. i think he was quite keen to connect ireland with america and other countries in europe in this struggle against authoritarianism. even though ireland is not a member of nato, it s pushed back very strongly against russia s invasion of ukraine, and i think the president appreciates that, and he s also given a large number of ukrainian refugees refuge from a tragic death. i m sure we will hear similar sentiments in ballina this evening. you said at the start you were there in belfast to hear him speak, but also, i wouldn t mind getting your reflections on that because there s the impasse politically there that s a real problem, and we saw real