DECRYPTION – The executive pension reform project is content to put the assets to work, by postponing the legal retirement age.
It seems a long time ago when Emmanuel Macron assumed to ask for a “effort“to retirees, “to help young workers“. A leitmotif repeated during his first presidential campaign, in 2016, then at the start of his first five-year term, and which took the form of an increase in the general social contribution (CSG) in early 2018, to compensate for the abolition of certain employee contributions. .
Five years later, the pension reform presented by the government on Tuesday spares retirees. No effort is required of them on the level of pensions, yet one of the levers that the executive could have activated to relieve public finances. “Today, one of the first anxieties of the French is purchasing power. I think that in this context, which worries everyone, it’s really not a good idea to imagine lowering the purchasing power of retirees“, justified Élisabeth Borne on the set of 20H de France 2 Tuesday evening.