Several media, especially among our Anglo-Saxon neighbors, have multiplied the articles devoted to the government’s bill as well as to the protest movement which will take shape this Thursday with a day of national strike.
“Difficulties, there will be for sure”. As France prepares for a day of mobilization against the pension reform this Thursday, the international press seizes on this episode of social conflict and does not skimp on the editorials.
“Indispensable” for the “Financial Times”
For the New York Times“the age of retirement is perceived as a cherished totem” by the French who oppose the majority of the government’s text, as confirmed by our latest Elabe poll.
“The path is strewn with political pitfalls”, underlines for his part the FinancialTimes in its editorial which considers “indispensable” a reform of the current system, qualified neither more nor less than “catastrophic note” by its deficit.
“The solution proposed by the government constitutes a reasonable compromise”, further advances the British daily.
“D-Day of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term”
The Spanish daily La Razon believes in its columns that the current social and political context constitutes neither more nor less than “D-Day of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term”. El País abounds and even speaks of a “moment of truth” for the President of the Republic who claims not to believe in the “victory of irresponsibility”.
“With this reform, it is not enough to be right”, warns the Frankfurter Rundschau for whom “Emmanuel Macron’s worst enemy is himself”.
“This observation must be difficult to swallow for a character as pleased with himself as Emmanuel Macron”, can we still read in the German daily.
“Everything is done to take the street speed”
For Politico, the head of state simply “needs to show the Germans and other European countries that France is not Club Med”. “He wants the French to work longer, good luck with that,” taunts The Economist on its website.
“This is why Emmanuel Macron has planned an administrative and legislative Blitzkrieg”, writes the Tribune de Genève, which questions the executive’s agenda and the extent of the mobilization against the reform: “all is made to take to the streets at speed”.
