Title: Paris police, protesters clash on ‘yellow vest’ anniversary | France News | Al Jazeera
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Paris police, protesters clash on ‘yellow vest’ anniversary
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Movement loses momentum
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‘Hardcore element’
Macron’s reform agenda

Content: “This isn’t anything like the huge protests that we saw earlier on in the year when many tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Paris and other cities like Bordeaux and Toulouse,” Barker said. “So what’s the reason for the dwindling? To some extent, it has achieved one of its key aims getting the tax on diesel revoked, and [Macron] also coughed up $11m in financial support to low-income earners,” he added. “The movement attracted a whole range of people from the far right, from the far left, and pretty much everyone in between, and because of that somewhat confused political identity, the [movement ] failed to [transform into] … a political movement.” Macron’s reform agenda
The yellow vest movement was one of the toughest challenges to Macron’s presidency before it dwindled in the early summer. It evolved from nationwide road blockades into a series of often-violent demonstrations that pitted rowdy protesters with police and ravaged Paris and other major cities in the country. The rallies forced Macron to make policy concessions and delay the next big wave of reforms, including overhauling the pension and unemployment systems. Macron’s plans to simplify the unwieldy and expensive pension system, which he says will make it fairer, is particularly unpopular. Trade unions have called on railway workers, Paris public transport staff, truck drivers and civil servants to strike against the pensions overhaul on December 5, and in some cases beyond. Students and yellow vest protesters have called for people to join forces with the unions.