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		</div><p>The French prime minister has told the unions behind a crippling railway strike that he is open to backing down on controversial proposals to raise the full pension age to 64.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Edouard Philippe wrote to unions one day after the French government and labour representatives engaged in talks that had seemed to end in stalemate after more than a month of strikes and protests.</p>
<p>Mr Philippe’s letter said the plan to raise the age of eligibility from 62 to 64 – the unions’ major sticking point in wide-ranging pension reforms – is open to negotiation.</p>
<p>It was the first time the French government overtly indicated room for movement on the retirement age issue. The overture could signal hope for ending France’s longest transport strikes in decades.</p>
<p>However, Mr Philippe said any compromise is contingent on first finding a way of paying for the pensions system in a country where a record number of people are aged over 90.</p>
<p>On Saturday, protesters in Paris marched through the streets to denounce the French government’s overall pension changes.</p>
<p>In scenes that have become all too familiar to Parisians, demonstrators set fire to a kiosk near Bastille square in the centre of the city as a minority of demonstrators in the march got rowdy.</p>
<p>Police fired tear gas briefly as minor scuffles broke out.</p>
<p>Two days earlier, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets nationwide to denounce the government’s pension proposals.</p>
<p>The unions have planned further action for next week to keep up pressure on the government.</p>
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