“We will not get to anything if we tell ourselves stories.” Prayer appears regularly in the last book by Edouard Philippe entitled “The prize of our lies”. Guest to the RTL microphone on Wednesday morning, candidate horizons in the 2027 presidential election delivered some of their guidelines in terms of economic policy, especially in working time.
“I will make sure that we are working more time in the week, in the year and maybe in life, the former Matignon tenant emphasizes. The 35 hours were a very bad idea, but I am not sure that reintroducing the 39 hours is a better idea. I think it is necessary to leave freedom to the French.”
In particular, it is favorable to a multiplication of agreements in companies where employees work more time and highlights the life periods “where we want to work longer”, as before 30 years. “We work more and win more and make France more prosperous and, therefore, safer and more powerful and prepare the future for our children,” insists the mayor of Le Havre, who refuses to “play Father Fouettard.”
Financing for social protection “with violent and brutal consequences for the economy”
From his perspective, Edouard Philippe considers that France has “some problems, no 60” to solve to be a powerful country. Among these problems is obviously the question of pensions. “We have known for a long time that there is an increase in the number of pensioners due to Baby Boom just after World War II, we remember that they will come to retire and that they will live more and it is good. But there are less and fewer people who finance retirement more and more people who are retired.”
Above all, the former prime minister is projected on the issues of the dependency of financing in 20 years: “All these retirees will have more and more beyond 85 years, or even more than 90 years and we will massively face dependency issues. And today, we do not know how to face these questions and we never manage to solve them if we have not resolved pension issues.”
Source: BFM TV
