Macron considered risks of inaction on pensions too great - govt source

French President Emmanuel Macron considered that the financial and economic risks of inaction on pension reform were too great and that special constitutional powers were needed to push it through, a government source told Reuters.

"My interest and political wish were to go to a vote ... but I consider that the financial and economic risks are too great," Macron told senior cabinet ministers, according to the source who was present, adding that was why he accepted the government's request to invoke special powers.