Pensions: "There is no window of opportunity to build a consensus on such a reform"

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Emmanuel Macron could well revive the pension reform Bertrand Guay AFP

By: Florent Guignard

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Abolition of special schemes, extension of the retirement age ... If the mystery hangs over its content, the pension reform could well be resumed to fill the deficit.

"Nothing is excluded," said Emmanuel Macron Thursday, June 3, however rejecting the initial project.

Whatever it costs to the relaunch of an unpopular reform, how to explain this political decision ten months before the presidential election?

Analysis by Benjamin Morel, lecturer at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas. 

  • French politics

  • France

  • Emmanuel Macron

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