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French pensions: Government survives two confidence votes

by Associated Press
| March 3, 2020 4:30 PM

PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s government faced down not just one, but two no-confidence votes, allowing it to force an overhaul of the retirement system through the lower house of parliament early Wednesday despite months of protests.

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