Business leaders still do not accept the prospect of a suspension of pension reform. At RTL, Patrick Martin, president of Medef, assures that “at one time or another, it will be paid with growth, it will be paid with debt or it will be paid with taxes, especially on companies.”
The manager takes the opportunity to address Sophie Binet, general secretary of the CGT, who believes that “suspending the pension reform is not expensive at all.” He even compares the suspension of the pension reform to a “yellow currency operation” on the scale of the state budget.
And he continues: “We are against the wall in terms of public debt, we have a deficit of 170 billion euros this year, let’s go to the end of the reasoning, there will be less wealth, less investments, less purchasing power. It must be said, I say it.”
This opinion is not unanimous, since this Monday the Nobel Prize winner in Economics Philippe Aghion advocated “halting” the pension reform until the presidential elections. “We have to stop the clock now,” he recommended.
Source: BFM TV
