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Macron says 2023 will be the year of pension reform in France

Reforming France's costly and complicated pension system was a key plank of Macron's election platform when he came to power in 2017.

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The coming year will be one of much-delayed pension reform, President Emmanuel Macron told the French in a New Year's Eve speech on Saturday, reports US News & World Report.

Reforming France's costly and complicated pension system was a key plank of Macron's election platform when he came to power in 2017.

But his initial proposals provoked weeks of protests and transport strikes just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Macron put the initiative on hold as he ordered France into lockdown in early 2020.

"We need to work longer," he said in a televised speech, adding that the reform would be implemented by the end of the summer.

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