Demonstration in Paris against pension reform, January 9, 2020. - SEVGI / SIPA

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The pivotal age introduced in 2022, the bill presented on January 24

The veil is rising more and more on the points of the pension reform which will be presented in the Council of Ministers on January 24. Pivotal age, financial equilibrium, teachers' remuneration, etc. The first elements of the bill were sent to the social security funds for their opinion. An “age of equilibrium” should be set up in 2022 to “encourage the French to leave later with a better pension”. However, the social partners will have until September 2021 to "propose to the government" other "means of achieving financial balance".

"An Iranian missile" responsible for the crash in Iran, according to Trudeau and Johnson

Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau and Boris Johnson took turns reporting on the Boeing 737, which crashed in Tehran with 176 people on board. For them, the facts are clear: “the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. It may not have been intentional, "as the Canadian Prime Minister said. In order to remove doubts, Iran shows a spirit of cooperation. The country notably "invited Ukraine as the owner of the aircraft, and Boeing as the manufacturer of the aircraft to participate in this investigation". Above all, the US agency responsible for transport security, the NTSB, announced that it had also received a notification from the Iranian civil aviation authorities to investigate the causes of the crash.

The intersyndicale calls for new actions on January 14, 15 and 16

The inter-union formed by the CGT, FO, CFE-CGC, FSU, Solidaires and youth organizations calls for new actions on January 14, 15 and 16 to obtain the withdrawal of the pension reform. Yesterday, the processions gathered 452,000 demonstrators according to the Interior Ministry, nearly 1.7 million according to the CGT, figures down from December 17.

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What to remember from the program on pensions with Jean-Michel Blanquer and Laurent Pietraszewski

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