France is set to welcome around 10 million visitors for the month-long football showpiece, however, strikes by rail workers have this week seen services cancelled on the SNCF train network.

This is including those from Swiss city Geneva where European football's governing body UEFA, the tournament organiser, is based.

Air France pilots are also planning to strike from Saturday (June 11) to Tuesday (June 14) in a separate dispute over pay.

This all comes to the dismay of Euro 2016 President Jacques Lambert, who said it "worries us because it could affect the mobility" of teams, referees and supporters.

"We are very concerned by the strike movement of the Air France pilots," Lambert told Associated Press through a translator.

"It is not a good situation for us, we will admit that.

"It is regrettable.

"We have no control over these social movements and these strikes."

The Government has struggled to bring an end to industrial action over its decision to force through watered down reforms to France's labour laws without a vote in Parliament.

CGT unionists have today blocked entry to Rungis, Europe’s largest wholesale food market, while Paris and other French cities have also been hit by a bin strike.

The French capital’s three main waste treatment facilities were picketed yesterday, while bin collections have stopped in several areas with rubbish beginning to pile up.

The majority of bin lorry depots in Paris have been out of action for more than a week and the main waste treatment and incineration site for the city has been obstructed for a similar amount of time. 

The bin strike also affects Marseille and Saint-Étienne, two of the 10 cities that will play host to games during Euro 2016.

Three oil refineries run by Total are still on strike, however, petrol stations are now running normally.

Yesterday, some 200 protesters fighting to stop the planned labour reforms blocked access to a train carrying the Euro 2016 trophy across France as it reached the end of its 25-city tour at Paris' Gare du Nord station.

Among the other challenges facing French Prime Minister Manuel Valls ahead of the 24-team tournament is the security threat following November’s terrorist attacks in Paris, which left 130 people dead.

A mobile phone app has been launched by the French Government to alert the public "in case of a suspected attack".

The Stade de France, venue for the first Euro 2016 tie between the hosts and Romania tomorrow, was targeted by suicide bombers in the attacks as France played Germany in a friendly.

"We don't have, as organisers, a threat or specific target to Euro 2016 to any one stadium in particular, to one match in particular," Lambert told Associated Press.

"We want to…ensure Euro 2016, as a sporting tournament, suffers as little as possible from this particular context.

"Our main goal over the last eight months has been the hope that we can bring an end to this negative spiral."

Meanwhile, a "natural disaster" has been formally declared in 782 French towns and villages in 17 separate departments of the country after flooding at the weekend.

The Loire and Seine rivers were the areas worst affected as well as the north-east of the nation.