The French Pension Crisis

France has the plant's seventh largest GDP. Its world-leading exports include cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and cheeses that smell like the bathroom of a P&O fairy after a particularly rough crossing. France makes up the primary axis of the European Union. But as well as infrastructure, Macron has been battling over various employment reforms. The flagship change is the raising of the state pension age from 62 to 64. He would argue that rising life expectancy means people have to work longer to pay for a longer retirement. Britain has cleverly avoided this problem. Our pension age was meant to rise from 66 to 68 by the end of the 2030s. Thanks to COVID and an underfunded backlogged NHS