{"id":337331,"date":"2025-12-10T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337331\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:27:11","slug":"frances-unpopular-pension-reform-delayed-until-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/337331\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s unpopular pension reform delayed until 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French lawmakers approved a social security budget, a major win for Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu that may stave off political chaos, albeit without addressing the country\u2019s spiraling debt problem. <\/p>\n<p>The battle over French pensions has forced three prime ministerial resignations this year. President Emmanuel Macron <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-pension-reform-suspended-health-care-budget-63eed2ffe11ecd9103f3954d8befd6b8\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">wants to raise the retirement age to 64<\/a>, the EU average, but the move is staggeringly unpopular despite France\u2019s deficit being the worst in western Europe. <\/p>\n<p>Lecornu agreed to delay the reform until 2027, after the next presidential election. The prime minister, who has already resigned and been reappointed once, leads a fragile minority government, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-social-security-budget-vote-sebastien-lecornu\/\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">faces another major hurdle with the state budget this month<\/a>. The social security budget must still pass the upper chamber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French lawmakers approved a social security budget, a major win for Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu that may stave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-337331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}