Legal blow to French pension reform plans
Country’s highest administrative court warns government that it has not had time to study legislation properly and it ‘guarantee the legal security’ of controversial changes to the pension system President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform plans that have prompted weeks of strikes and protests have been dealt a blow by the country’s highest administrative court.
The Conseil d’Etat said that the financial forecasts underpinning the bills were questionable and warned that it could not “guarantee the best possible legal security” of the documents that were approved by the Council of Ministers on Friday. It said that it had not had enough time to consider the proposed legislation.
“This situation is especially regrettable because the bills lead to a reform of the pension system that is unprecedented since 1945 and aims to transform for decades to come a system that is a major component of the social contract,” the council said.
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