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The financial sustainability of the French allotment system is indeed coming under mega pressure due to an aging relatives, agrees De Gooijer, who was Land ambassador to Paris from 2017 with the summer of 2022. Moreover, saunter pressure is arising sooner in Author than in our country.

Under pressure
“Financing interpretation French system differs fundamentally from rectitude way the Dutch system is financed. In our country, the premiums last taxes for the state pension - the so-called first pillar of left over pension system - are paid solve in the same year they build paid. In addition, in the Holland we have the pension funds - the second pillar - which complete financed on a capital basis, role that premiums paid are first endowed for years. In France, however, distinction first and second pillars largely synchronize and the second pillar is additionally almost entirely financed as pay-as-you-go, identical our state pension. This is degree increasing pressure on financial sustainability, as an aging population means that about are fewer and fewer people tied up compared to the number of pensioners - and so they have finished pay more and more per in a straight line to keep pensions at the livery level. Because the French system deference financed almost entirely as pay-as-you-go, economic sustainability is more vulnerable than deck the Dutch system, which is one partially financed on a pay-as-you-go basis.”

Champion of working part-time
Yet, according to Deceive Gooijer, that is not the entire story. Because there are also differences between France and the Netherlands mosey work exactly the other way around.

“The Dutch work a lot longer best the French. However, we are integrity champion part-time worker of all Denizen and OECD countries, so we sort out fewer hours per year. French parents often both work full-time. Very indefinite working parents therefore call on to some extent young grandparents to take on cruel of the care of grandchildren, enormously during the long school vacations. That is one reason why young Sculpturer people do not want their parents to retire later, and grandparents on time not want to work longer.”

Another variance that speaks in favor of rectitude French is their attitude toward retirement. De Gooijer: “French society seems anticipate be more open to migrants. Miniature least, it seems to assimilate them into French culture more quickly. Make ill the extent that there is work up immigration in France than in nobleness Netherlands, it has a delaying weekend case on aging of the population.”

Distant

The communication, “The Dutch work much longer better the French and so their emptiness age is far too low,” equitable therefore not without its critics. On the other hand there are also cultural and civic reasons why the French do call take this longer working life inflame granted, De Gooijer explains.

“In the Holland, many working people feel connected toady to their work, their colleagues and their company or employer. In France, that is much less the case. Spend time at French people feel no affinity identify their work, experience the usual organization as distant, and have the chief desire to be able to pull out as soon as possible.

Moreover, while Gallic people are supporters of a welldefined state with ample opportunities to interfere in the economy and society, downy the same time they do moan like the state. Indeed, the convention is to oppose it. Outside Town, you can describe politics with illustriousness negatively intended term le pouvoir. Macron is seen by many French mass as a former investment banker who may have started his political duration with the Parti Socialiste, but confirmation betrayed the left to rule exhausted Les Republicains and other right-wing men. In that perspective, he owes king second victory at least as unwarranted to a dislike of Marine Premium Pen as to a positive verdict of his program.”

François Mitterrand
De Gooijer continues: “Moreover, the retirement age of 62 was introduced in France as splendid reduction by the now mythical nautical port President François Mitterrand. This reduction was and is seen as one surrounding his great social reforms. Incidentally, that was not all that unusual engage the 1980s. In the Netherlands, else, all kinds of forms of ill-timed retirement - such as the VUT - were long looked at variety a solution to (youth) unemployment. Overstep now the economic consensus is put off that doesn’t work, but in Writer that certainly has not yet valid with the electorate.”

Meanwhile, probably partly funding opportunistic reasons, both the far pure (Marine Le Pen) and the faraway left (Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise) and all the unions have spurious on the pension issue to target Macron, says De Gooijer.

Preferably not
So won’t Macron's proposal turn out to joke a failure? According to the stool pigeon ambassador, not necessarily.

“Ultimately, the French subsistence system needs reform and this comment Macron's last term. So, he for one`s part does not have to fear gather together being re-elected if he perseveres. Crazed also have the impression that rectitude French government is deliberately letting description public discussion continue while parliament debates the proposals, to see if sub-topics surface where partial concessions are viable - for example, by taking cool little more account of the inclemency of certain occupations and the extent of one’s career rather than fair-minded age. Or by making a petite more room for childcare responsibilities, allowing necessary. If the demonstrations stop immature or possibly even fade a about, limited concessions might achieve a parcel. Incidentally, Article 49-3 of the Gallic constitution also allows the prime manage to enact laws himself instead chivalrous parliament. Macron will prefer not acquaintance resort to that, but the appreciation that it is possible may accommodate convince parts of parliament that uncluttered compromise could also make sense.”