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François Lenglet: "People no longer believe in deficits, the health crisis has changed our perception of public money"

2023-01-31T05:17:24.690Z


BIG INTERVIEW – The essayist and economic journalist deciphers the challenges of pension reform and observes many weaknesses in the government's project.


François Lenglet

is the author of numerous essays.

His latest book, “Rien ne va, mais…” has just been published by Plon.

According to François Lenglet, the pension reform is justified by France's productivity deficit compared to its European neighbors and to all the developed countries: the priority for the next two decades must be to work more to produce more, analyzes he.

But this reform has known for six years a number of successive metamorphoses giving the feeling to the French that it is dictated more by the political circumstances of the moment than by the general interest, he argues.

While it protects current retirees, in particular the baby-boom generation which continues to benefit from

"a system at the zenith of redistribution"

, it weighs heavily on the standard of living of working people and, given the evolution of demography, does not save the pay-as-you-go system.

“Even if this text is adopted as it stands

, warns Lenglet,

there will be…

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Source: lefigaro

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