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		</div><p>Travellers have suffered disruption across France for a second day as unions dig in for what they hope is a protracted strike against government plans to redesign the national retirement system.</p>
<p>Most French trains were at a halt, including Paris subways, and traffic jams multiplied around the country.</p>
<p>Emboldened by the biggest outpouring of public anger since President Emmanuel Macron took office, unions are holding meetings on Friday to plan their next steps.</p>
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<p>At least 800,000 people marched nationwide on Thursday, as strikes shut schools and some public services and disrupted hospitals and refineries.</p>
<p>Police fired repeated volleys of tear gas and protesters set fires in Paris but most demonstrators were peaceful.</p>
<p>Mr Macron is determined to push through the changes to France’s convoluted and relatively generous retirement system, seeing them as central to his plans to transform the French economy.</p>
<p>Opponents fear the changes to how and when workers can retire will threaten the hard-fought French way of life and worry that the plan will push them to work longer for less retirement pay.</p>
<p>Mr Macron’s government has been negotiating with unions and others for months about the plan but will not release the details of the changes until next week.</p>
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