French pension 'reforms'

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France like most Western countries is staring down the barrel of an aging population and reduced reproduction rates. This document makes Macron's reasons for doing what he's doing obvious, particularly the Old-age Dependency Ratio chart on page 2. Raising the retirement age is inevitable for all nations as the post war baby boom influences our demographics and similar to actions taken to mitigate climate change the sooner measures are implemented the less draconian they need to be.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/.../FR-EN.pdf

EU overview in this document:
https://commission.europa.eu/system/file...2022_0.pdf