The government will not back down. Guest this Monday on RMC and BFMTV, Elisabeth Borne confirmed her desire to implement the pension reform “quickly, in the summer of 2023.”
Extension of the contribution period? Raise the legal age to 64 or 65? If the objective of the Executive is to get the French to work “collectively more”, the way to achieve it remains unclear. As is the legislative method adopted when the government plans to go through an amendment built into the Social Security funding bill.
One thing is certain, this “will go through a gradual change in the effective retirement age”, taking into account “naturally long careers and hardships”, added the head of government, specifying that “all the organizations that evaluate the balance of our pension system say the imbalance is deteriorating, the deficit is widening.
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Source: BFM TV
