France: after retirements, Elisabeth Borne determined to "accelerate"

2023-04-15T19:05:07.487Z

Highlights: The day after the announcement of the validation of the pension reform, Elisabeth Borne began the operation "recovery in hand" The Prime Minister spoke to the executives of Renaissance, the presidential party, gathered for their national council on Saturday, April 15 in Paris. She took the opportunity to affirm the determination of the executive to "accelerate" "We will never be the camp of renunciation. To renounce would be to stop the reforms, when our fellow citizens expect answers and actions," she said.

France: after retirements, Elisabeth Borne determined to "accelerate"

Speech by French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne at the National Council of the Macronist Renaissance party, April 15, 2023. AFP - THOMAS SAMSON

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The day after the announcement of the validation of the pension reform by the Constitutional Council, and a few hours after the promulgation of the law, Elisabeth Borne began the operation "recovery in hand". The Prime Minister spoke to the executives of Renaissance, the presidential party, gathered for their national council on Saturday, April 15 in Paris. She took the opportunity to affirm the determination of the executive to "accelerate".

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The protest against the pension reform is still alive: many French people in the street, the unions angry, the opposition revived... But Elisabeth Borne appeared without qualms.

In the coming weeks and months, she assured, around the President of the Republic, we are determined to accelerate.

In other words, continue to reform. "We will never be the camp of renunciation. To renounce would be to stop the reforms, when our fellow citizens expect answers and actions, "considers the Prime Minister.

Élisabeth Borne sets objectives: "Improving the daily lives of the French is the best way, the only way, to appease our country and bring our compatriots together.

Building a France of full employment, guaranteeing equal opportunities, with a method: "Overcoming is the very identity of our party.

After the pension reform and to get out of the crisis, the executive proposes as a solution a return to the fundamentals of Macronism version 2017: uninhibited and determined. The one who brought Emmanuel Macron to power.

A speech that gives a foretaste of the message that the president will address to the French on Monday evening, and which may not reassure the unions, even if Ms. Borne reiterated that she was ready to build with them a social agenda.

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France: after retirements, Elisabeth Borne determined to "accelerate"

France: after retirements, Elisabeth Borne determined to "accelerate"

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