Macron speaks: French leader aims to calm pension storm
French opponents to an unpopular new law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 have called for people to bang pots and pans across the country PARIS -- French opponents to an unpopular new law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 have called for people to bang pots and pans across France while President Emmanuel Macron will seek to diffuse tensions in a televised address to the nation. Macron, who just enacted protest-igniting pension changes, is expected to provide details about his domestic policies in the coming months. He hopes that it will help the country move away from the period of protests and strikes over the retirement age that threatens the ambitions of his remaining four years in power. The evening address kicks off a likely arduous battle for the second-term president to repair the damage done to his public image and Politics by forcing the pension plan through parliament last month. Opponents of the unpopular pension plan called for people to gather in front of...