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  • 10/12/2010
French students joined more than a million striking workers Tuesday in the biggest protests so far against President Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to hike the retirement age to 62. Some strikers decided to prolong their stoppages to try and make Sarkozy give up the pension plans that are the cornerstone of the right-wing leader's reform agenda and which he says are needed to slash France's budget deficit.Duration: 02:14

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