For weeks our nation has been suspended in the debate on the evolution of our pay-as-you-go pension system.
This bill, admittedly incomplete, remains more essential than ever.
As in 2010 and 2003 under Sarkozy and Chirac, the rulers' ethics of responsibility pushes them to take essential measures to safeguard the financial balance of the pay-as-you-go system threatened by an increasingly unfavorable age pyramid.
With the demographic evolution, France goes from 6 working people for 1 retiree in 1945 to 1.7 today, it will be 1.2 in fifteen years.
In 2030, 1 in 3 French people will be over 60 years old.
In 2040, France will have reached the demographic peak of its active population and will lose assets, it will be -30% in 2045.
Faced with the implacable demographic reality, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 is therefore essential.
But age measurement alone will not be enough to solve the problem.
For thirty years, France has seen a succession of…
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