President of France Emmanuel Macron he arrived very carefully, today, three hours after his colleagues, in EU heads of state and government summitan AFP journalist reports.

He entered the plenary session at about 2.45 pm (3.45 pm Greek time), Champs Elysees said, without walking the red carpet in front of which journalists stand at the entrance to the building of the European Council.

26 other heads of state and government arrived by 11:00 am for lunch with UN Secretary General António Guterres.

The head of the French state faced political and social crisis in his country after the adoption, with great difficulty, of the pension reformThe President announced this morning “meetings” at the Elysee Palace without further clarification.

And all this at a time when a new cycle of demonstrations, strikes and incidents over Macron’s pension reform is unfolding across France.

Demonstrators, expressing their dissatisfaction with the French president and his plan to raise the retirement age, blocked access to the airport terminal in Paris, sat on railway tracks, clashed with police and threw objects at the police station.

As for the summit, the negotiations will focus on Franco-German disagreements over the place of nuclear power in the fight against climate change and a ban on heat engines in 2035.

Source: APE-MPE-AFP.