France’s Bayrou Rules Out Bringing Retirement Age Back to 62
Elderly people walk by the harbour in Toulon, France.
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French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou ruled out bringing the French retirement age back to 62, citing the financial situation of the pension system.
Bayrou, who has opened three months of talks between labor unions and business federations on revising President Emmanuel Macron’s deeply unpopular 2023 pension law that is gradually raising the minimum retirement age to 64 from 62, added that selecting a single minimum retirement age may not be the only way forward.