Pensions: "It is up to the government to manage this subject, not the social partners"

A new meeting between the participants still present in the "conclave" on pensions took place on 3 April. The objective is unchanged: to find sources of funding. The representatives of the employers defended the establishment of a social VAT. An unpopular idea but often put on the table.

According to Bertrand Martinot, economist and former social adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, the Medef and the CFDT can reach some agreements.

The meeting will take place at the new headquarters of the Economic and Social Council (CES), which moved from Belém to the Palácio das Laranjeiras, in Lisbon, and is scheduled to start at 15:00. As usual, it will be chaired by the Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security. At this meeting, which should be the last before the early legislative elections scheduled for May 18, an assessment will be made of the “execution of the tripartite …