🇫🇷Macron addresses the nation; announces rise in minimum wage | Al Jazeera English

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a range of conciliatory measures aimed at appeasing "yellow vest" protesters, including increasing minimum wage and cancelling a planned social security tax hike for pensioners earning less than 2,000 euros ($2,272).

But Macron refused to reinstate a wealth tax and to back down on his reform agenda, which he said would proceed in 2019 with overhauls of pensions, unemployment benefits and public expenditures.

Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports.

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