Save the pension system!? by Barbora Misakova

If you planned to go to Paris or London, I would recommend you not to do so. You would probably get to the city, but your other moves in there will be complicated as French strikers disrupted trains and planes. Also workers from hospitals and mail delivery are engaged in massive street protests over plans to raise the retirement age. Workers from London subway are also protesting. They are unhappy with staff cuts, so they walked off the job and the only way you can travel in London are buses now. Crisis hit us all and not very softly, I would say, but steps of most of European governments were not lucky. While in 220 French cities are people pouring into the streets and cal! ling for refusing austerity plans, Prime Minister Francois Fillon reminded the French that it could be worse as nearly all European countries negotiate on raising the retirement age to 67 or 68. But people don’t care. “I am just getting tired of this because this is not the first time.” said Henda Fersi, a passenger at the Part-Dieu train station in Lyon. As it seems, simple math – you live longer, you work longer – is making French protester angry. One sign in Paris showed a raised middle finger with the message: “Greetings from people who will die on the job.” But Labor Minister Eric Woerth said it was the “duty of the state” to save the pension system. But who will save the people is probably unimportant question.

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