Why is France’s Macron holding firm on pension reform despite violent protests?

France has seen another violent night in opposition to the government's pension reform. More than a million people have taken to the streets to protest the move by President Emmanuel Macron to raise the retirement age. Paul Smith from the University of Nottingham explains.
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[sngtianwan]

It's also NO NATO & NO EU! That will destroyed him!

[singaanom]

If the government has money, why should the payment of the pension be postponed by extending the retirement period? If retired workers still want to work again, that is the workers' choice, because they are the ones who feel their physical abilities and what jobs are suitable for them. It's possible that the government doesn't have the funds to do anything and therefore takes the workers' pension funds or the workers' pension funds have already been used and there is no more money to pay for pensions that are due.