The pension reform, a drag on the future of young people

The pension reform proposed by the Government represents an obstacle to job creation that will deepen intergenerational lack of solidarity.

The bipartite agreement that the Executive finalizes with the unions goes through shielding the system by showing a burdensome desire to collect money.

that has aroused the direct rejection of the employers, the leading opposition party and the country's leading experts, whatever their ideological inclination.

It was treated

a of an exercise in improvisation after the untimely generalized revaluation of benefits with the CPI and not of a determined commitment to resolve the sustainability of the Social Security system when facing the retirement of the cohorts of the

It is surprising that an experienced minister like

has evaded social dialogue.

In an inexplicable way, the framework of the Toledo Pact - created precisely so that these policies were left out of the short-term electoral brawl - has been underestimated, thus supplanting the institutional channel in parliamentary headquarters for a bullshit that only seems to satisfy the trade unions.

Conditioning the reform on the disbursement of European funds is no excuse for the opacity and unilateralism of the Executive.

As we gather today in the

, experts unanimously regret that an opportunity is lost and assure that more measures will be necessary in the future.

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However, not only has it abandoned its initial intention to extend the computation period to calculate the pension, but it has loaded the entire reform on the cost of the companies and the wages of the workers through the unbalanced unbalancing of the maximum contributions and the penalization of the misnamed Intergenerational Equity Mechanism.

Social Security already disburses almost 12,000 million euros each month

, plus two extra payments.

A reform was necessary, but not this patch that will translate into an increase in the barriers to employment in a country like Spain, which registers the highest youth unemployment rate in Europe (29.3%).

Contrary to what María Jesús Montero assured, the purpose of pensions is to guarantee the well-being of retirees, not that they help their children and grandchildren.

Her words show that populism has slipped from the periphery of government action to State policies.

With this, the Executive intends to sidestep its duty when it comes to generating the appropriate labor framework for young people.

Even the pensioner who led the initial protest movement in the Basque Country today admits in our pages that the imbalance in the system can no longer be aggravated.

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