Next month's Monaco Grand Prix is facing the risk of power cuts as part of an energy union's protest plan against France's pension reform. The country's unions have been fighting back for several weeks against President Emmanuel Macron's unpopular pension reform that raises the age to qualify for full retirement from 62 to 64 years old. And the unions protests showed no signs of abating in the wake of the bill being signed into law recently. Over the weekend, the CGT Energie union, which denounced the "undemocratic method" of the Macron government, announced a plan called "100 days of actions and anger" in response to Macron's "100 days of appeasement". The...
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