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France’s Constitutional Council Has Rubber-Stamped Macron’s Pension Reform
On Friday, France’s Constitutional Council upheld Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular pension reform. The move shows the bankruptcy of a constitution that puts only minimal checks on the president’s power.