By Kathyrn Armstrong
BBC News

France's top constitutional body has cleared the Macron government's highly unpopular move to raise the state pension age from 62 to 64.

 

President Emmanuel Macron is expected to sign the reforms into law within 48 hours.

 

The Constitutional Council rejected opposition calls for a referendum but also struck out some aspects of the reforms, citing legal flaws.

 

Full story:  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65279818

 

-- © Copyright BBC 2023-04-15

They need to pay for the new French people , the new French don’t like to work and have big families to support, up to 4 wifes and a mass of children. 

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1 hour ago, Foghorn said:

They need to pay for the new French people , the new French don’t like to work and have big families to support, up to 4 wifes and a mass of children. 

You forgot to mention the in-laws and all the great cousins.

 

Plus "the new French people" like to change their fleet of cars every year, and they need to pay overseas workers to maintain the swimming pools and the vast gardens attached to their state supplied accommodation.

Well, looking at the french population pyramid, in about 20 years there will be two tax payers for every retired person. If they do not raise it further then the tax on the workers will simply not be enough to fund pensions unless tax is raised to cover it.

 

Based on UK pensions of say £200 a week, it would mean .the taxman taking near 20% of your 'average' wage merely to cover old people's pensions. 

64? in OZ it is 67