{"id":624309,"date":"2025-12-10T13:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624309\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:54:30","slug":"frances-unpopular-pension-reform-delayed-until-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624309\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s unpopular pension reform delayed until 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">French lawmakers approved a social security budget, a major win for Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu that may stave off political chaos, albeit without addressing the country\u2019s spiraling debt problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The battle over French pensions has forced three prime ministerial resignations this year. President Emmanuel Macron <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-pension-reform-suspended-health-care-budget-63eed2ffe11ecd9103f3954d8befd6b8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:wants to raise the retirement age to 64;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">wants to raise the retirement age to 64<\/a>, the EU average, but the move is staggeringly unpopular despite France\u2019s deficit being the worst in western Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lecornu agreed to delay the reform until 2027, after the next presidential election. The prime minister, who has already resigned and been reappointed once, leads a fragile minority government, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-social-security-budget-vote-sebastien-lecornu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:faces another major hurdle with the state budget this month;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">faces another major hurdle with the state budget this month<\/a>. The social security budget must still pass the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/tom-chivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tom Chivers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tom Chivers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French lawmakers approved a social security budget, a major win for Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu that may stave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[193972,2000,299,36,193971,12840,12184,12338,2580],"class_list":{"0":"post-624309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-debt-problem","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-french-lawmakers","13":"tag-president-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-prime-minister","15":"tag-sebastien-lecornu","16":"tag-social-security"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115695613730455479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}