PARIS: France's massive strikes opposing changes in the country's pension system showed some signs of weakening when Marseille garbage collectors and workers at three oil refineries voted to end their walkouts.
But the French finance minister announced that the strikes are costing the national economy up to €400 million ($557 million) each day, as workers continued to block other oil refineries and some trash incinerators to protest the plan to raise the retirement age to 62.
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