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US drones, Inflation bites, Macron's pension reform, 2024 Paris Olympics

Elsewhere, it's been a brutal week for banks. Credit Suisse shares fell sharply again on Friday despite a respite when Switzerland's central bank stepped in on Thursday. Flashbacks to the 2008 financial crisis started last week when two midsized US banks failed. Silicon Valley Bank's tech startup investors got a bailout so they could pay their staff on time. 

Inflation has been around for months and so have strikes. The British government is now offering the healthcare sector a 5 percent wage increase for nurses, paramedics and midwives but not junior doctors.

France's president has railroaded through his unpopular pension reform bill. But at what cost? In the end, the prime minister was no longer sure she had the votes. She was then tasked with telling parliament that the government would trigger article 49.3 of the constitution, turning the vote on pensions into a decree and a vote of confidence in the government. Thursday's spontaneous shows of anger morphed into more demonstrations this Friday in cities like Rennes, Marseilles, Bordeaux with a national strike day called for next Thursday.

Another issue that has Parisians grumbling is the ticket prices for the Olympic Games. A first lottery-drawn sale of online tickets proved pricey, sometimes exorbitantly so, far from the promise of one million tickets at €24 each and more than 4 million for less than €50. The digital age is proving cruel for more than just sports fans.

Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Daphné Leprince-Ringuet, Juliette Laurain and Guillaume Gougeon. 

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