“On the whole, people know that we all have to work a little longer on average, because otherwise we won’t be able to finance our pensions well”. Tuesday, from Rungis market of national interest, Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture Marc Fesneau and the Minister Delegate for SMEs Olivia Grégoire, said he was counting on the “common sense” of the French and reiterated his desire to make them work longer, during his first outing in direct contact with the French since the launch at the beginning of the year of his highly contested pension reform.
After visiting veal cutting professionals, he defended a pension reform that “allows us to create more wealth for the country”. “We cannot continue to say ‘we have a crisis at National Education, we have a crisis at the hospital, how do we finance?'”, assured the president at the start of this visit at dawn where he wished to convey “a message of gratitude to all those who allow our country to turn, to live”.
An inflationary peak this semester, according to the president
“It’s like the budget of a household that of a nation”, insisted the president who began this ritual visit of the largest fresh produce market in the world around 5:30 a.m. and where he was arrested as soon as he arrived on the pension reform, which plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 years. “If we don’t produce wealth, we can’t distribute it,” explained the president, convinced “that work must continue to pay more. »
Convinced that “everyone has common sense”, Emmanuel Macron pleaded for “a real debate in our society on work”, while recognizing “a difficult inflation context”, whose “peak” will be, according to him , reached “this semester”.