Pensions: how the reform and the protest movement are perceived by the foreign press

“Difficulties, surely there will be.” While France is preparing for a day of mobilization against the pension reform this Thursday, the international press is taking advantage of this episode of social unrest and is sparing no editorials.

“Indispensable” for the “Financial Times”

For him New York Times“retirement age is perceived as a precious totem” by the French who oppose the majority of the government text, as our latest Elabe poll confirms.

“The path is strewn with political pitfalls,” underlines the financial times in his editorial in which he considers a reform of the current system “essential”, qualified neither more nor less than a “catastrophic note” due to its deficit.

“The solution proposed by the government constitutes a reasonable compromise”, the British newspaper also advances.

“D-Day of Emmanuel Macron’s second term”

The Spanish newspaper The reason He believes in his columns that the current social and political context constitutes neither more nor less than “D-Day of the second five-year period of Emmanuel Macron”. The country abounds and even speaks of a “moment of truth” for the President of the Republic who claims not to believe in the “victory of irresponsibility.”

“With this reform it is not enough to be right,” warns the Frankfurter Rundschau for whom “Emmanuel Macron’s worst enemy is himself”.

“This observation must be difficult to digest for a character as pleased with himself as Emmanuel Macron”, can still be read in the German newspaper.

“Everything is made to pick up speed on the street”

For Politico, the head of state simply “needs to show the Germans and other European countries that France is not Club Med.” “He wants the French to work longer, good luck with that,” he teases himself. The Economist on your website.

“That is why Emmanuel Macron has planned an administrative and legislative Blitzkrieg”, writes the Tribune de Genève, which questions the executive’s agenda and the scope of the mobilization against the reform: “everything is done to take to the streets at full speed”.