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Emmanuel Macron wants to relaunch pension reform, but in a “transformed” version
"Is pension reform to be thrown away?" No. It would be a mistake. Emmanuel Macron announced this Thursday in an interview with regional daily newspapers that he wanted to start the pension reform, but "transformed" project, and requested the resumption of negotiations with the social partners this summer. He also suggested that he was in favor of extending the duration of contributions, a parameter that has so far been ruled out. "This reform cannot be resumed unchanged at the end of the crisis, but the question of the number of years during which we contribute remains open," he said. We cannot be a country that wants independence, social, economic and environmental recovery and be one of the countries where we work the least throughout life in Europe. "
State of health emergency: Parliament gives green light to gradual exit on July 11
There was no suspense. The Parliament definitively adopted Thursday evening the bill organizing the exit from the state of health emergency on July 11, with possible restrictions until the fall, assimilated by the opposition to an extension in "trompe l'oeil" Of this exceptional regime. The Assembly voted for the last time by 50 votes to 12 and one abstention with the support of LREM, MoDem and Agir, but without the votes of other groups on the right and on the left. The Senate, dominated by the right-wing opposition, had previously examined it one last time in the morning, rejecting it straight away. Came into force on March 24 in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, the state of health emergency, which allows certain public freedoms to be restricted, had been extended in May until July 10.
Ghislaine Maxwell's arrest: Charged with sex trafficking of minors, ex-girlfriend of Epstein risks 35 years in prison
The hide-and-seek game is over. Almost a year to the day after the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein, his ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, was arrested by the FBI on the East Coast of the United States on Thursday morning. She was charged with four charges of sex trafficking minors and "perjury", and was presented to a judge in the afternoon by video link. Maxwell is expected to be transferred soon to Manhattan, where a magistrate will be responsible for deciding on a possible release on bail which the prosecutor's office opposes because of a "risk of flight" deemed lifted: born in France and raised in the Kingdom - United, she has three passports (French, English and American), 16 bank accounts and had bought in cash the residence where she was hiding for a million dollars last November.
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- Epstein case
- Coronavirus
- Emergency state
- Emmanuel Macron
- Pension reform
- Society