The outstretched hand and the truncheon.
At the dawn of a new day of demonstrations against the pension reform, the executive is deploying on three fronts to try to get out of the crisis.
The first is union.
Emmanuel Macron opened it on Friday from Brussels, where he was taking part in a European Council, saying he was
"at the disposal of the inter-union"
to initiate discussions on labor issues.
The head of state having however ruled out questioning his pension reform, it is no surprise that the CFDT politely dismissed him.
"No one is going to tackle new issues by dodging pensions,"
replied the union's national secretary, Yvan Ricordeau.
The executive, however, keeps the door open to
"
resume the dialogue
",
according to the Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, according to whom
"the faster the better"
even if
"four months of consultation"
took place with the representatives of the unions. ,
“which did not make it possible to overcome all the disagreements”
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