French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday signed into law a deeply unpopular bill to raise the state pension age.
The proclamation of the law in the government’s official journal came hours after France’s Constitutional Council had approved the main pension-age increase in a ruling on Friday.
The legislation, which will progressively push up the age for drawing a state pension to 64 from 62, is due to take effect from Sept. 1.
The president has staked his reputation as a reformer on the pension changes, which he says are needed to avoid billions of euros of deficit each year by the end of the decade.
Source: Bahrain News Agency