French PM Borne to carry on despite show of force over pension reform
France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne vowed on Thursday to carry on despite a bruising day of political manoeuvres in which she deployed the emergency powers of Article 49.3 to sweep the government's controversial pensions reform bill through the National Assembly.
Borne blamed MPs in the Les Republicains (LR) party for the last-minute decision to avoid a vote in the lower house of parliament and unleash what i