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Jean-Louis Bourlanges: "There is a gap between the timidity of the pension reform and the indignation it arouses"

2023-01-16T18:27:48.986Z


INTERVIEW – The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly and MoDem deputy believes that in the name of the general interest the pension reform must succeed, but regrets that it is not ambitious enough.


A graduate of letters, former student of the ENA and honorary lecturer at the Court of Auditors,

Jean-Louis Bourlanges

was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2007. He is Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly.

LE FIGARO.

- The debate on the reform of the pension system begins under very difficult conditions for the government.

Are we engaged in a simple psychodrama or in a high-risk showdown for national cohesion?

Jean-Louis BOURLANGES.

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Difficult to predict the arrival of the races.

What is striking, and deeply worrying, is the discrepancy between the caution, and even the timidity, of the proposed reform and the vehemence, even the indignation, that it arouses in the country.

The rejection is massive while at the end of the reform process the retirement age will remain one of the lowest in Europe and the minimum pension of future retirees, 85% of the minimum wage, one of the highest ;

taking long careers into account will be…

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Source: lefigaro

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