France - The French government faces a wave of strikes and protests from next week after proposing that the country's retirement age should be raised from 60 to 62 by 2018.
The proposals published earlier this week would also see wealthy people and civil servants paying higher pensions contributions to help plug an anticipated €40bn (£33bn) hole in the state retiremen...
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