Former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe supported the pension reform presented by the government of Elisabeth Borne on Tuesday, considering it “necessary” and to “act quickly”. He also stresses that “each reform [des retraites] is a crisis and no reform solves the question”.
Former Prime Minister Édouard Philippe, whose Horizons party is a majority member, announces support for the pension reform presented by Élisabeth Borne on Tuesday, “necessary” and that it is “better to do it quickly than slowly”, in an interview with the Point published on Wednesday. “If we go towards a system that balances pensions in the long term, which contains justice measures, fine,” he judges, adding about the postponement of the retirement age to 64: “If the measure that the government is proposing has the same effect on the balance as a postponement to 65, very good”.
“Better to do it fast than slow”
Édouard Philippe indicates that “Horizons will support everything that goes in the direction of more work to guarantee more prosperity and more solidarity”. In his eyes, “the reform is necessary and it is better to do it quickly than slowly”, while the inter-union announced a first demonstration on January 19.
On pensions, “each reform is a crisis and no reform solves the question. Pensions are a long and sad national tension”, declares the mayor of Le Havre. “I never said that I wanted to reform at 67,” exclaims Edouard Philippe about a statement in the fall that had caused talk on the left as in macronie, before explaining: “J I simply stated a fact: the other countries of Europe, our neighbors such as Germany or Italy, faced with the same problems, have all chosen to go to 65, 66 or 67, whether they are governments of right or left”.