After 20 years of governance from "traditional" parties to Macron, is it still possible in France to stem a dynamic in which far right is the “new normal”?
The Macron government says the reforms are necessary to prevent a projected 13.5 billion Euro annual deficit in the pension system in 2030. The reforms, Macron claims, will make the system financially sustainable. But not everyone is convinced.
Which would you favour, dear reader pro or con? Set the retirement age at 60…70…75? Make the rich work longer so the not-so-rich can frolic at 60? What fun it must be to organise the lives of others millions of them. Tell them when they should work…and when they should rest? Sure, why not?
Former PM Scott Morrison has joined the global lecture circuit where he is amusingly advertised as a "globalisation mastermind", writes Dr Binoy