Whoever the next president is, he will have to tackle the explosive subject of pensions.
Weighing 327.9 billion euros, or 13.5% of GDP, they represent the largest item of public expenditure.
Despite major reforms undertaken in 1993 (Balladur), 2003 (Fillon), 2010 (Woerth) and 2014 (Touraine), the pension system, which showed a deficit of 18 billion euros in 2020,
"is called upon to remain sustainably in deficit
”, estimates the Court of Auditors.
Even Emmanuel Macron recognizes this, he who in 2017 considered the
“parametric”
measures (on the means) useless and defended a
“systemic”
reform (on the substance) unifying the 42 regimes into a large universal regime by points.
"
Unlike when I was elected and the Pensions Orientation Council wrote that there was no problem with funding pensions, there is now a problem with funding
,” he admitted. during his interview on TF1-LCI, on December 15.
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