French pensions reform battle: the mounting calls for a tax on the super-rich
Nationwide demonstrations against French President Emmanuel Macron’s reform of the pensions system continued on Tuesday, in the tenth separate day of action called by trade unions. The protests are chiefly over the reform’s raising of the age of retirement on full pension rights by two years to 64, which the government argues is necessary to fund the system. But one of the recurrent demands voiced by the marchers is for a tax on the super-rich instead, a proposition, resolutely opposed by Macron, that is also surprisingly gaining ground among elite economic circles. Mathias Thépot reports.
DuringDuring the series of nationwide demonstrations and marches against Emmanuel Macron’s reform of the pensions system, which includes raising the general retirement age on full pension rights from 62 to 64, a recurrent and popular demand chanted by the protestors is“Tax the rich!” instead.
