French protesters hope to reverse retirement law in nationwide marches



Thousands of people are protesting across France over the country’s retirement law that will raise the state pension age from 62 to 64. NBC News’ Matt Bradley reports.

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36 comments

  1. the 1French are lazy !!!

  2. Macron deserves lifetime jail. WEF muppet !!

  3. i worked for a french company here in america. the french do not care about americans. politicians and corporations are playing games with us. we are now pitted against each other no thanks to greed, politics, race and religion. the french do not care when i retire, nor do they care how much i make. enough of this fake and phony solidarity.

  4. Amazing that the French are protesting in mass over retirement meanwhile in America the citizens sit on their hands as the worst corruption in American history goes unchecked.

  5. The French do not care about the retirees of the United States. They do not care about me and when I will retire. Why should I care about when they retire.

  6. So the French took a vacation and came back? Don’t worry, they will start another vacation soon.

  7. Can you spell revolution?
    R-E-V-O-L-U-T-I-O-N

  8. American's should stand united and protest against the Debt Ceiling Bill Biden passed with the Republicans.

  9. Is this the EU democracy they are talking about? 🤔
    Since demonstrators are beaten by politicians and his subordinates.
    Yes, the EU is a democracy😂😂😂

  10. The People Have Rights To Demonstrate💯‼‼‼‼..

  11. in Indonesia, people are retiring either when they rich, or dead

  12. I don't understand what's the big deal about raising the retirement age to 64 where most of the population in the world retire at at least 65. Am I missing something here or French are just lazy?

  13. When both sides agree the govt sucks. And they stand together. Good things happen for the people.. Pay attention fellow americans. They want us divided cuz if we stand together we destroy the Trumps, Bidens, clintons, bush's, etc……….

  14. 😂😢😂😢😂😢😂😢😂😢

  15. The French do this every 5 years since 1789.Pretty pathetic.

  16. Cry me a river. 🙄 The rest of Europe have higher retirement age, so 64 is still low.

  17. Without vote yeah needs to be fix.also 7 curfew. They are grown people they have every right to walk around where and when ever. I see why my great,great,great,great grandmother left France

  18. Laziness is their problem in France.😅

  19. This guy puts money over people. He is a joke.

  20. With rising life expectancy it should actually be closer to 70. These protestors can't do math. Unreal. 🙄

  21. Still scrapping about this? Don't ever migrate to Canada then. Unfortunately we're all sheeple in this wicked meat grinder of a world. Honourable though. But futile. All the best ✌️

  22. The 2nd French Revolution has began!

  23. Russia did the same a few years ago

  24. These protestors are really angry …

  25. So, in plain English speak, what your news story is reporting is that the “French People” do NOT like the action of their own government to “SUNSET” social security? Hmmm, that’s weird? What political party would desire to do that?

  26. What can a country do when your life expectancy is keep increasing(longer the country needs to pay benefits) and the birth rate keeps going down(less people pays taxes)? Really.

  27. the current protest since January amount to about well, nothing. Unless the protest stops national railway, airway, and power plant for a month, then maybe we are talking about actual damage. But these highly technical jobs are probably the most secured and thus these actual essential workers are not too worried about the 2 year increase.

  28. ….it was also an anti-AGENDA 2030 protest.

  29. The French are known for their health and longevity, despite having a high rate of smoking. In fact, the average life expectancy in France is just over 82 years compared to only 78 years for Americans.