Pension reform: Macron ready to “endorse unpopularity”

I won’t back down, but I understand the anger. This is essentially the message that the Head of State tried to convey for thirty-five minutes during his interview on TF 1 and France 2 on Wednesday. Questioned in the winter garden of the Élysée Palace, Emmanuel Macron assured that he had carried out this complicated project out of a spirit of responsibility. “Do you think it makes me happy to make this reform,” he said, adding that “it is not a luxury or a pleasure” but “a necessity for the country”. He said he was ready to endorse the “unpopularity” of the text.