Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that he would propose to the social partners an "exchange that will make it possible to initiate the follow-up and to take into account the decisions, whatever they are, of the Constitutional Council" expected Friday about the pension reform. "The country must continue to move forward," the head of state continued at a press conference in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

"I know that the period will still keep the traces of the disagreements of the moment - but I will do so with the spirit of concord," he said.