Pension reform: “We will come to an agreement”, warn the unions, united and ready to fight back

It’s worthy of a game of chess that is beginning… The government has taken the lead by opening the game of discussions on several additional points of the pension reform wanted by Emmanuel Macron. With, still on the table, the initial course: a gradual postponement of the legal age of departure from 62 to 65 years old from the summer of 2023. “The working basis is the program on which the president of the Republic was re-elected. No more no less. We couldn’t be any clearer,” very explicitly recalled a ministerial adviser.