In pensions, social couples enter the heart of the matter. As part of the “conclave” decided by François Bayrou, unions and employers have addressed the initial age issue since last week. A thematic object of deep disagreements, while the former wish to return to the 2023 reform in relation to the legal age at 64, unlike the second.
But for the president of the Pension Guidance Council, Gilbert this, the debate reopened on the development of the reform of 2023 could soon become “secondary” or even “disorderly” given geopolitical tensions. “Current discussions about pensions cannot completely ignore the current international context,” explains in a publication published in the Digital Telos Journal, and added that “the need to significantly increase our military expense in the coming years, if not in the next quarters, it becomes increasingly clear and pressing.”
However, “the progressive, more or less explicit entry, in a war economy” like Emmanuel Macron “will make secondary school, if not disorderly, the current debates about the age of opening the retirement rights at 64”.
Defense “Budget Priority” but “without abandoning anything of the social model”
Gilbert’s statements do not seem to be shared by Bercy: “The need for a war economy does not make the” messy “debates about our pension system. Many observers seem rushed, but we must give the work of the conclave all its possibilities and respect it,” a ministerial source to BFMTV told BFMTV. Before continuing:
In early March, Éric Lombard, he acknowledged that it will be necessary to make reforms and decisions to be able to invest more in defense: “We will have to make more efforts to protect ourselves, to build this economy in favor of peace and strengthen defense in a European model,” said the Minister of the Economy. “We will have to spend more public money and, therefore, this will impose more efforts,” he had hit while public finances are already in an unfortunate state.
For his part, François Bayrou had affirmed the “budget priority” to the defense, specifying, however, it had to be “without abandoning anything of the social model that is part of the French identity.”
The geopolitical context “will necessarily complicate the equation”
The fact is that social partners recognize themselves that it is likely that the need to spend more for defense complicates a little more negotiations on pensions and the interrogation of the reform of 2023.
Other unions stand out with the BFM business that all tracks that had planned to allow the return to be seen in the balance of the system (eliminating niches, helps companies or even retirees) are now likely to be attended in defense and not to pensions.
The CGT sees it as a new pretext to unravel the retention system, such as Denis Gravouil, confused secretary of the CGT indicates: “There is always a good reason to address the pension system or social rights. It was COVVID, then the economic crisis … We believe that we can continue to demand an improvement in social regimes.”
Source: BFM TV
