Watch: French rail workers hold strike day as pension dispute continues
IndependentAPR 2023
French citizens have to embrace the pension reforms. With ever increasing life expectancies and an aging population, the cost to the state's coffers has become unsustainable. France needs to consider its economic and social future, and raise the pension age like all other European countries have done.
Despite those that say the numbers are unsustainable, the deficit for future years is not as dramatic as Macron and his supporters make it out to be. There are other ways of raising the funds necessary outside of increasing the pension age, including by reversing the tax cuts for businesses that Macron's government has itself implemented.