Pension reform revived but still not funded

It's official: pension reform will resume. For several weeks, the President of the Republic has been informally implying that the implementation of a universal pay-as-you-go system would not be abandoned. This time, he clearly confirms it: “Is the pension reform to be thrown away? No. It would be a mistake, ” he said in his interview to the regional press. Even if he says he is "open" to her "being transformed".

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The Head of State justifies the continuation of the reform, in particular for its redistributive capacity, in favor of this famous "second line: the deliverers, the cashiers ..." used during the crisis. “All of that France is the losing France of the current pension system. It is the one that wins in the universal points retirement system, that of small careers and fractured careers, "he explains.

I will ask the government to quickly re-engage in-depth consultation, in a dialogue of responsibility

But the calculation is also very political: Emmanuel Macron, who wants to be the champion of reform and change,

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