The pension reform will be the “priority”, “the day we start the reforms”, announces Bruno Le Maire (Illustration) -

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Elisabeth Borne and the unions oppose it.

But Bruno Le Maire persists and signs: the pension reform will be the "absolute priority for reforms the day we initiate the reforms", once France has found the path to growth, said Tuesday on LCI the Minister of 'Economy.

Bruno Le Maire had said on Sunday to have "the strong conviction" that this reform should be "the absolute priority", a vision opposed by the Minister of Labor Elisabeth Borne for which "the absolute priority is to get out of the economic and social health crisis, to protect jobs ”.

"Our economy needs deep transformations"

"We must do things one after the other, protection, recovery and then repay the debt we have contracted and resume the path of reforms," ​​said Bruno Le Maire Tuesday.

And to concede that "if we do not want to get our feet in the carpet, it is important not to do everything at once".

"Things have not changed, our economy needs deep transformations, our pension system also needs deep transformations when the time comes", nevertheless reaffirmed the Minister of the Economy.

Reforms are in "the DNA of the majority"

"When we have recovered growth and economic activity we will have to resume the thread of reforms which is part of the DNA of the majority to which I belong", according to him.

Asked whether in this case he still considered it appropriate to initiate these reforms as early as next year, he replied that he hoped "that in 2021 we will have found the path to growth, we will have found a more dynamic economy. ".

Beyond the need to reduce public deficits, the minister regretted that France is one of the countries where people work the least throughout life.

“We are one of the countries - and I find it deeply unfair - where people between 55 and 63 work the least.

I think it's a loss of skills, a waste of experience, ”said Bruno Le Maire.

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