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Macron raises minimum wage to please 'Yellow Vest' protesters
By EUobserver
French president Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday a €100 per month increase in the minimum wage from 2019 and cancelled an increase in social contributions for pensioners earning less than €2,000 monthly, in a major concession to the so-called 'Yellow Vest' protests. "The effort we asked for was too big and was not fair," Macron admitted in a 13-minute TV address from the Elysee Palace.