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Accused to maintain the vagueness on his pension reform, Édouard Philippe tries to take the case back. Eight days of a day of mobilization against this reform, the French Prime Minister says " more than ever determined " to implement a new system by points and universal.
Determined and conciliatory at the same time, Édouard Philippe reaffirmed the government's ambition, while leaving the door open for discussion. " We will not compromise on the target but we will take the time it takes to get there," said the Prime Minister. We will put an end to the special diets, but we do not want to stigmatize those who are there today. In other words, universality yes, brutality, no .
What is not negotiable for Édouard Philippe is the change of system. What is still negotiable, on the other hand, is the " transition ", that is, the date of entry into force of this new system.
Find the right cursor
" I do not believe that an immediate and brutal transition is acceptable and legitimate, and I do not believe that a slow transition to the point of sending back the effect of reform for decades is appropriate, " he said. head of government.
Where I am not likely to be open to compromise is on the question of the universal system, the pay-as-you-go system, the point system and the balance of the future system.
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It is therefore a question of finding the right cursor, adds Édouard Phillipe, who assures that the strike does not scare him. " I do not feel like someone who is paralyzed, usually people say I'm determined, sometimes they say I'm calm. I recognize myself quite well in these two qualifiers . The head of government said that the main lines of the reform will be presented around mid-December.
The Prime Minister has thus occupied the ground since the beginning of the week to do what he calls " pedagogy " but above all, to show the French that the executive is already preparing after December 5.
In communication, this is called a sequence, and this sequence is Emmanuel Macron who launched it after his trip to Amiens late last week with a goal: to try to show that he is not paralyzed while waiting for the December 5th strike.
Play the card of public opinion against the strikers
The President of the Republic reaffirmed that the pension reform should be made and described the movement of railway workers as that of the defense of category interests. A fairly classic strategy of playing the card of public opinion against strikers.
At the same time, he asked the Prime Minister to prepare minds in the perspective of the day after. By consulting the social partners and announcing that the reform would be presented after mid-December. A way to give perspective and to be able to make announcements likely to defuse the movement.
Emmanuel Macron is therefore at the maneuver, he tightened the bolts during a lunch at the Élysée on Tuesday and said he had asked Edouard Philippe to " carry " the reform. A message especially addressed to the majority that the Prime Minister came to meet in the National Assembly. Sunday, a government seminar will close the sequence to show that the entire government is on the bridge.
■ OECD joins the pension debate
In a report published Wednesday, November 27 the OECD encourages the governments of its member countries to reform their pension systems. The first imperative, according to the OECD, is to adapt to the aging of their population. The richest countries in the world had two out of ten people over the age of 65 in 1980. They will be six out of ten in 2060. To finance all these retirees, it is therefore a question of adopting structural reforms.
Pre-retirement is in the crosshairs of the OECD, which judges, for example, that Italy should not have relaxed the conditions for early departure, as it has done recently. Or special schemes, which allow certain categories of workers to retire before the legal age.
The OECD points directly to France, noting that almost all countries have special regimes for the military, firemen or police, but not for railway workers or for gas industry employees. As a nod to Emmanuel Macron, who wishes to remove these benefits.
Finally, the OECD calls for the challenge of so-called "atypical" jobs: the self-employed, part-time or temporary workers, are more numerous, but their retirement conditions are often worse than for conventional employees .