When it comes to France, a country known as the "Gallic rooster" by the outside world, although it was once famous for "surrender" during World War II, there was once a time when the enemy army captured Paris, and it was never possible to catch up with the speed of the French surrender, but after decades of development, France's military strength is now a leader in the world.
Unfortunately, with the French president's previous decision to extend the retirement age from the previous 62 to 64, it directly angered countless Frenchmen. So in Hemingway's book, "If you are lucky enough to live in Paris, Paris will always be with you wherever you spend the rest of your life", Parisians are now with garbage.
The biggest reason is that Paris sanitation workers are dissatisfied with the delay in retirement and directly choose to strike, which led to the fact that after 10 days of strikes by French workers, the streets of Paris have been filled with garbage, about 7,000 tons. As a result, Paris, once known as the romantic capital, has now become a garbage capital, and it is even common to see many French people directly open their windows and throw garbage.
Of course, in addition to the strike protest of sanitation workers throughout France, even teachers, professors, and public officials of administrative agencies also participated in the strike protest team. The biggest reason why the French president carried out reforms at this time was that Mitterrand, who was the president of France at the time, directly lowered the retirement age from 65 to 60 years old in order to improve the happiness of French people.
After so many years, the French have long been accustomed to a luxurious life, how can it be possible to go from luxury to thrift again with the wave of the current president's hand. Don't forget that as the old saying goes, "from thrift to luxury, from luxury to thrift", this protest has led to the burning of large amounts of garbage on the streets of Paris, do not think that this is someone handling garbage, but the protest crowd and the police confrontation, directly ignited the garbage demonstration.
However, in the view of the current president of France, he must adjust the retirement age, otherwise France will be directly dragged down by astronomical pensions due to the increasingly aging of the population. Unfortunately, for France at the moment, if it does not change, it may be a dead end, but once it changes now, it is a dead end now. Perhaps the French president saw this and made up his mind that since the horizontal and vertical are dead ends, it is better to choose to let the storm come early.
It is not difficult to see through the general strike of the French that it seems that it is not so easy for the French president to let the civilians from luxury. Imagine that a rich man lives like a brocade every day, and one day he goes bankrupt, and the huge psychological gap is likely to cause the rich man to commit suicide on the spot.
Therefore, France delayed the retirement age at this time, allowing a large number of civilians to take to the streets to protest, representing that the French do not want to live a hard life. After all, in the eyes of these Frenchmen, whether there is enough money in the hands of the top to pay pensions has nothing to do with themselves. It also means that it is absolutely impossible for the French to agree to delay retirement, and it is better to choose to let them "die" directly. Therefore, the French president's big move this time is likely to make the entire country's development press the stop button, I wonder if this person can turn the tide, and can France restore its former prosperity?