Lawyers, doctors, nurses, teachers, pilots, flight attendants, police officers and firefighters also want to hold onto their own efficient, state pension schemes. There have been five sticking-plaster reforms in the last 25 years, which have kept state pension deficits more or less under control. Reform the French pension system and annoy railway workers but also lawyers, nurses and doctors? Newcomers after 2025 would join a new, universal systemThis would have meant, in effect, that instead of 42 state pension regimes France would have 43. But it has failed to make, let alone win, the case for a universal pension system.

Source: The Local November 27, 2019 09:56 UTC