Paris (AFP)

Less than two days: this is the time it remains for the executive to resolve the outstanding issues of its pension reform and try to ease fears without giving up. An overview of the crisis exit paths under consideration before Edouard Philippe unveils "the entirety of the project" on Wednesday.

No immediate savings

This is the condition sine qua non to keep the support of the CFDT, the only union in favor of a universal system.

If the Macron candidate ensured that the "pension problem" was no longer "financial", the president had changed his mind in recent months, demanding that the future "universal system" supposed to replace the 42 existing regimes be "balanced" financially "from its entry into force, originally scheduled for 2025.

But this date is now called into question, as the goal of savings associated.

The reform must not include "immediate" budget, said Thursday the Minister of Public Accounts, Gerald Darmanin.

To fill a deficit of between 8 and 17 billion by 2025, according to the Pension Guidance Council, the government - which refuses to increase contributions or lower pensions - envisaged various measures of lengthening the duration work.

At the risk of reaching people under five years of retirement, supposed to be spared by the reform.

Delay the reform

Also called into question, the application of the reform from the generation 1963, who will be 62 in 2025.

The Unsa and CFDT railway workers demand an implementation for the only new entrants to the SNCF.

A "clause of the grandfather" deemed "impossible" by High Commissioner Jean-Paul Delevoye for the sake of "fairness" to other professions.

"Between these two extremes, we must be able to find the right cursor", wants to believe the Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe.

The reform should in any case "apply to Emmanuel Macron", born in 1977, said Thursday the spokesman of the government, Sibeth Ndiaye.

Made-to-measure for special diets ...

Firm on the "disappearance of special regimes", Édouard Philippe however ensures not to be in a "logic" of "confrontation" and is open to "progressive transitions".

Because it "would not be reasonable, not acceptable, not just change the rules during the game," said Prime Minister Friday.

Regarding railway workers, particularly attached to their right to leave before age 62, "this seems to be recorded, there will be a clause of the grandfather," believes a parliamentary source LREM.

Others, such as police officers, gendarmes, firefighters, prison supervisors or air traffic controllers, have already obtained the maintenance of their right to early departures to 57 or even 52 years under the "dangerous duties" it carries.

A status quo envied by others, such as truck drivers.

... and for teachers

By the government's own admission, teachers risk being penalized by the reform with the end of the calculation of their pensions over the last six months of their careers.

Their pensions "will not fall", repeats the Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, promising a "considerable" and "historic" effort to improve their remuneration.

From "2021", there will "necessarily a share of salary increase and a share of premium increases in proportions that remain to be defined," added Mr. Blanquer, Gerald Darmanin referring to a cost between "400 and 500 million euros".

Release the reins

"The reform mounts on a lack of confidence in the political in general", judges Frédéric Sève, negotiator of the CFDT, which wishes "that the State renounces to manage itself" the future system and to be held "at a reasonable distance ".

"This is a decisive element to make the reform acceptable," he insists, highlighting the piloting of the complementary scheme for private employees, the Agirc-Arrco, by unions and employers: "manage the system we know how to do it, it is not a problem.

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