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Pensions: "When the spirit of spending compromises reform"

2023-01-03T19:34:39.757Z


The editorial of Le Figaro, by Vincent Trémolet de Villers. By what mystery does an economic imperative - to balance a system in structural deficit - and a demographic evidence - fewer and fewer working people, more and more retirees - present themselves every day a little more like a sort of political Armageddon? ? The usual mind? The leisure society? Disregard for work? Ideological confinement? The fear of the social fireworks that the French unleash as


By what mystery does an economic imperative - to balance a system in structural deficit - and a demographic evidence - fewer and fewer working people, more and more retirees - present themselves every day a little more like a sort of political Armageddon? ?

The usual mind?

The leisure society?

Disregard for work?

Ideological confinement?

The fear of the social fireworks that the French unleash as soon as they hear the word reform?

It all counts, certainly, but it's too short.

The doubt is deeper since it crossed the mind this summer of the boss of bosses, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux.

A doubt that does not seem to spare Élisabeth Borne.

She herself is already giving up one of the constituent elements of the electoral promise that she is responsible for enshrining in law: the starting age at 65.

History will tell us if this is a new step in the presidential moonwalk which, on this subject, we have been witnessing for five years or a new skill to prepare the offensive...

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Source: lefigaro

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