The issue of pensions in France is like a never-ending and always painful soap opera.
From hesitations to renunciations, from demonstrations to procrastination, from grand declarations to half-measures, no real structural and effective modernization of our pension system has been undertaken in recent years.
To spare everyone, we don't please anyone.
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The outlines of the new reform unveiled by the Prime Minister are part of this sacrificial ritual.
Stuck in a conformism that rules out any daring approach, our rulers regularly invoke the spirit of the National Council of Resistance to establish pay-as-you-go pensions as an intangible and monolithic dogma, whereas this was adopted after the war in order to be able to immediately pay the retirement pensions, thanks to such a mechanism of intergenerational solidarity possible in a country with a high birth rate.
The financial deterioration of our pension plans is inevitable and the deficits will continue to accumulate
However, since the Liberation, the situation has changed!
So much so that it is the state that must...
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