Sweden: the pension reform that inspired France

Demonstration organized by the collective "SOS Retraites" which brings together lawyers, doctors, nurses and other self-employed workers, to protest against the plan to reform the pension system, on February 3, 2020, in Paris. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP

By: Frédérique Lebel

It is the parliamentary battle in France, while the famous bill on pensions is examined in Special Commission. Thursday, February 6, 2020, new interprofessional events are planned.

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So we decided to tell you about the Swedish model in Accents d'Europe. It is indeed the reform introduced in Sweden, in 2004, which largely inspired the French government. The country then went from a pay-as-you-go pension system to a point system, which raised a number of criticisms. The explanations, from Stockholm, of our correspondent Anne-Françoise Hivert.

Retirement at age 67 in Ireland
And while the Irish are going to the polls, this weekend, to elect their deputies, a subject is hotly discussed during the campaign. Retirement too !!! The retirement age was raised to 67 years from 2021, to balance the accounts. Not very consensual. In Dublin, Emeline Vin.

The false Russian retirement
This is a reform that has started the popularity, yet almost unshakable of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In the summer of 2018, the pension reform led to a large unusual social protest in the country. From now on, men will no longer be able to retire before the age of 65 and women will be 60. But, in Russia, the notion of retirement is not at all synonymous with the end of work, as Etienne found in Moscow Mouth.

Czech pensioners courted
And in the Czech Republic too, we work long after the official retirement age. Especially with an economy that is doing well, employers find it difficult to find the necessary workforce. In Prague, Alexis Rosenszweig.

"Klimahysterie", the German word that divides
And for our column “In a word”, a column which returns to an emblematic word of one of our neighbors, we will look at Klimahysterie, climatic hysteria. A word that is used in particular by populist parties to discredit citizen mobilization against global warming. Klimahysterie was elected this year by German linguists as the "bad word of the year". And Deborah Berlioz, in Berlin, explains why.

(Replay of February 5, 2020)

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