Overview

• Matignon invited the full intersyndicale, representative or not, to meet Sébastien Lecornu at 10:00 on Wednesday, a timetable confirmed by a government source.
• The unions demand the scrapping of the summer budget package, including doubling medical co‑payments, an "année blanche," 3,000 civil‑service cuts, and unemployment insurance changes, and they continue to oppose the retirement age set at 64.
• Union leaders warned they would quickly set a new national day of strikes and demonstrations if their demands are not addressed by Wednesday.
• Lecornu has already restored the two public holidays targeted by his predecessor and is consulting widely while exploring ways to raise more from very high incomes, with options still undecided.
• The Sept. 18 protests drew about 500,000 participants according to authorities and more than one million according to organizers, as the minority government prepares to present the 2026 budget on Oct. 7.