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EDITORIAL. Retirement at age 60 has been talked about for fifty years. Despite some reforms and a bunch of reports, this absurdity still finds an echo…
By Etienne Gernelle
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OIt is perhaps wrong to take lightly the popular ramblings about the four-day week, or the “right to laziness”… Sometimes, depending on political events, the worst nonsense becomes reality.
There is one – and a big one – which was born fifty years ago, on June 27, 1972. That day was adopted the Common Program of the Left, a brilliant operation by François Mitterrand whose aim was to quietly annex the Communist Party. We therefore did not skimp on the demagogic promises, among which was retirement at age 60. A decade later, we found this measure in the 110 proposals of the candidate Mitterrand, then in the law. The biggest wooden check in the Ve Republic was signed.
The absurdity of retirement at 60 was already obvious, as it…
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