The French Pension Reform Aftermath

What the contested pension reform has produced in 2025 after the 2023 protests

Par Margaux de Vaucouleurs, The Paris Fool.

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The Reform

The French pension reform of 2023 -- the increase of the retirement age from 62 to 64 that was passed using Article 49.3 without a parliamentary vote after the government determined the vote would fail -- has in 2025 the political and social legacy that the specific manner of its passage and the specific scale of the protests it produced generate.

The Aftermath

The aftermath: the reform is in effect. The retirement age is 64. The unions that organised the protests have not succeeded in reversing the reform. The political cost of the reform to the Macron administration contributed to the specific electoral dynamics that the 2024 legislative elections produced. The reform is both implemented and contested in ways that the political situation has not resolved.

The Paris Fool Coverage

The Paris Fool covers the pension reform aftermath because the accountability journalism of the most contested domestic policy decision of the Macron presidency requires the sustained follow-up that documents what the reform has produced and what the political legacy of its passage has meant.

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