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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Refineries reopen as France strike slows AFP - Wednesday, October 27 Send IM Story Print PARIS (AFP) - – France's strike-hit refineries gradually reopened Tuesday as the mass movement to defend the right to retire at 60 showed signs of losing steam. As work resumed and picket lines dwindled, the Senate confirmed its vote to approve the final draft of President Nicolas Sarkozy's fiercely contested bill to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62. "It's a historic vote," said Labour Minister Eric Woerth, architect of the reform, as the upper house signed off on the measure. The lower house, the National Assembly, was expected to formally adopt it on Wednesday, opening the way for Sarkozy to sign it into law. Students had vowed to raise the pressure with demonstrations on Tuesday, but only about a thousand joined the main protest outside the Senate in Paris. Union leaders who led strikes and street rallies over recent months admitted they would now have to change tactics and push to modify the reform. "It's not over," insisted Bernard Thibault, head of the CGT union. "It will take other forms. The subjects it has raised are not closed, whatever happens in the coming days," he told state television. "It's normal that there are fewer people. People are tired. It's cold," said Christophe Loton, one of a dwindling crowd of picketers at the Grandpuits refinery near Paris. "But the important thing is that the refinery workers are on strike." The government has made it clear it will not abandon the key measure of the reform, raising the retirement age, but Finance Minister Christine Lagarde promised talks on issues like youth employment. "There's no winner and no loser in this matter," she told Radio Classique. "What's very important is that people take responsibility for their actions. It's to realise that the economy needs to turn over." Lagarde had previously warned that a series of one day national strikes had cost the French economy between 1.6 and 3.2 billion euros (2.25 to 4.5 billion dollars), but said Tuesday this would not affect the growth outlook. The government said it hoped to guarantee fuel supplies to four out of five petrol stations from Tuesday, as refineries begin to return to work, although the industry association warned this could take longer. Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux told reporters on Tuesday that work had resumed at five of mainland France's 12 refineries. The first refinery workers began to end their strikes on Monday but it can take several days for a refinery's operations to return to full capacity. Fuel distributors' association UFIP late Tuesday said about a fifth of service stations were still dry, down from a third at the height of the strikes. Energy Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said the goal was to have 80 percent of service stations "in a state of functioning completely or nearly so" by Tuesday evening. He added in a statement that "the situation continues gradually to improve." French strikers got some solidarity from unions in neighbouring Belgium which temporarily blocked trucks from entering two fuel depots Tuesday to secure pledges from energy firms that they would not use them to make up for shortages in France. In Marseille, bin men returned to work after a two-week strike left 10,000 tonnes of rubbish in the streets of the Mediterranean port. Sarkozy argues that, with an ageing population and growing public deficit, France can no longer afford to retire at 60. Opponents have called for the shortfall in the social security account to be made up by taxing the rich. The president's supporters hope he will now put the conflict behind him and start to rebuild his shattered political standing in the run up to his expected re-election bid in 2012. The Senate, which approved the pensions bill last week, nodded through the final draft after it was reconciled with the version that had earlier passed the National Assembly, which is expected to vote on the final text Wednesday. Trade unions plan another nationwide day of strikes and rallies on Thursday and the Socialist opposition has asked the constitutional court to rule on the reform's legality, but Sarkozy expects to sign it into law in mid-November. "It's two weeks now we've been on strike. At first we were here all the time, arriving at 4:00 am and going home at midnight," said Rodolphe Avicer, a worker at the Grandpuits site. "After two weeks it wears you out." 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