French pension strikes to continue Thursday, disrupting fuel supply and air travel

Train and air traffic will be disrupted in France on Thursday and garbage collection in cities including Paris will be patchy as strikes against a planned pension reform enter a third consecutive day.

March 9, 2023 . 4:26 AM

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Train and air traffic will be disrupted in France on Thursday and garbage collection in cities including Paris will be patchy as strikes against a planned pension reform enter a third consecutive day.
Opinion polls show a majority of voters oppose President Emmanuel Macron's plan to delay the retirement age to 64.
Workers in sectors including oil refineries and railways continue to strike and plan to carry on for the rest of the week.
TotalEnergies workers took a majority vote to halt production at the Feyzin refinery.
Air transport will continue to be disrupted on Thursday and Friday.
Garbage bags started piling up in Paris and traffic on the French part of the Rhine river came to a standstill.
The disruptions to the LNG import terminals and cold weather across northwest Europe are affecting the European supply-demand balance.
French power production was reduced by 11.2 gigawatts as the strike affected nuclear, thermal and hydropower plants.