Pensions: the COR and its report corporatized by Gilbert Cette

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For the first time, a preliminary report from the COR supports a further regular increase in the legal retirement age to 66.5 years in 2070. The unions denounce a misuse of the role of this consultation body.

Gilbert Cette, architect of Macron's 2017 economic program, is an avowed ultraliberal. Here, on October 21, 2024. © Amaury Cornu / Hans Lucas

In a France that is overwhelmingly opposed to the latest pension reform ( 73% in favor of its repeal according to the latest poll on the subject conducted by Ifop in May 2025), MPs adopted on Thursday, June 5, a resolution presented by the GDR group calling for the repeal of the increase in the legal retirement age to 64, as well as the repeal of the 43 years of contributions required to acquire a "full-rate" pension.

It was in this atmosphere of intense opposition to the tightening of the general system that the preliminary report of the Pensions Advisory Council (COR) on "developments and prospects for pensions in France" began to leak on Friday, June 6. It included a strong recommendation:...