Draining the pension reserve fund, the strange socialist proposal

Suspension? Repeal? On the eve of Prime Minister François Bayrou's general policy speech, the future of pension reform is on everyone's lips. At the heart of the negotiations in Bercy last week, this issue risks returning to the table in the coming days. To mollify the Socialist Party (PS) – and avoid further censorship – the Minister of the Economy, Eric Lombard, and that of Public Accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, have put on the table a potential revision of the pension reform.