Pension reform: what the government can still negotiate

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The executive’s room for maneuver is small, since it does not want to increase taxes or give up its objective of financial equilibrium by 2030.

Through Mary Bordet and Mathilde Siraud

ELisabeth Borne does not want to reveal her game for the moment, contenting herself with saying that she is ready to “enrich” her text in Parliament. “I will not answer you before knowing the amendments”, evacuated the Prime Minister Monday during a ceremony of greetings to the press organized in Matignon. “I’m not going to give you the catalog (of amendments, editor’s note) that I don’t have yet. »

“There is already a lot of sweetness in the reform, so it’s complicated to add more without jeopardizing the objective of balanced budgets,” they say in his entourage. This is the trap for the executive. Having included a large number of social and support measures in the text sent to the Council of State – including that of increasing the minimum pension to 1,200 euros for future and current retirees…