More than one million people took part in demonstrations across France on Thursday, according to the hardline CGT union. Union leaders hailed the strike as "already a success" and issued a warning to Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, demanding fiscal, social and environmental justice in his upcoming budget.
The figures indicate that the protests were the biggest union-led demonstrations in France since weeks of mobilisation in 2023 against Macron's pension reforms.
