Macron pushes pension reform through

When France’s Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced the decision to the National Assembly, she was booed: The controversial pension reform will be pushed through with the constitutional paragraph 49.3. The opposition and the trade unions do not want to accept this.

In a consultation with his ministers in the Élysée Palace, President Emmanuel Macron had made the decision for this special path, which provides for pushing through a legislative project without a vote in parliament. The consultation was not only about raising the official retirement age from 62 to 64, but above all about the President’s future room for maneuver.

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