While Emmanuel Macron will receive unions and employers on Tuesday to discuss the country's revival and after Cpvod-19, the pension reform resurfaces in the news.
The only obstacle to its recovery: the possible deterioration of the health situation in France.
It is today that Emmanuel Macron receives Trade Unions and Employers to discuss the post-Covid crisis, on the menu the pursuit of reforms by the end of the five-year term and in particular the very controversial hypothesis of an increase in the legal retirement age from 62 to 64.
Yes, we remember Emmanuel Macron had mentioned this hypothesis during a visit to the Lot a month ago, an announcement that had caused surprise including in his entourage, since the majority is divided on the advisability of relaunching a subject at such high risk against the backdrop of the fear of relaunching a vast social movement, and for once unions and employers agree, there is no question of relaunching such a reform at this time, the first because they are there Obviously see a decline in acquired rights and the second, the bosses because they fear that a new outbreak of popular anger will mortgage the recovery.
But does the situation of our regimes justify such a rapid reform?
So yes because the plans are still in deficit, 18 billion last year, yes also because pension spending weighs very heavily in the French economy, around 15% of GDP yes finally because the situation is such that even in the most rosy scenarios there is currently no prospect of a return to equilibrium in the years to come so all these reasons make it necessary to act, to go from 62 to 64 years for the retirement age for example would save at least 20 billion euros in a full year. However, the latest projections from the Retirement Orientation Council in early June have shown.