PARIS, France - France's top constitutional court is to rule Friday on whether to approve President Emmanuel Macron's deeply unpopular pensions overhaul after months of protests.
The Constitutional Council's green light is the final hurdle before Macron can sign the changes into law and ensure they are implemented by year-end. But that was far fewer that the nearly 1.3 million it said demonstrated at the height of the protests in March. It is not yet clear whether it will give its go-ahead, but the path towards any actual referendum would be very long.
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