On March 10, the government spokesman, Gabriel Attal, announced on RTL the desire of Emmanuel Macron to postpone the legal retirement age from 62 to 65 if he is re-elected as President of the Republic. .
This announcement, however, contradicts the remarks that the Head of State had made in 2019, when he presented his project for a complete overhaul of the French pension system: he then repeated that he did not intend to raise the legal retirement age. retired.
Apart from this notable change of course, which it justifies “because the macroeconomic conditions are not the same because the country continues to transform”why did Emmanuel Macron and his predecessors seek to modify the pension system since the 1990s?
Why is the functioning of this system so complex or considered obsolete that it must constantly be considered to change it, even if it means facing major social movements?
In this episode of the “L’Heure du Monde” podcast, Aurélie Blondel, journalist in the “Money and Investments” section of the Worldlooks back at the origins of the French system and explains why pensions are the “sea serpent” of reforms.
An episode produced by Cyrielle Bedu, directed by Amandine Robillard and presented by Jean-Guillaume Santi.
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