When living in France, you often hear about the topic of pensions.Whenever pension reforms are announced, large-scale ...

It's easy to feel hard done by as a British pensioner looking across the Channel. The French retire at 62, versus 66 over here (rising to 67 from next year), while the full state pension averages ...

PARIS (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron braved strikes and street protests to force through a deeply unpopular reform in 2023 raising France's retirement age by two years to 64, saying it was the ...

I met a Frenchman, moved to France as if by fate, and parted ways as if by destiny (lol). And for some reason, I'm still here ...

PARIS, Feb 20 (Reuters) - France's pensions system will steadily sink deeper in the red in the coming decades despite a 2023 overhaul to keep it afloat, adding nearly half a trillion euros to the ...

Prime Minister François Bayrou shocked France when he said in January that the country's pension scheme was haemorrhaging billions. As part of his government policy statement, in which he outlined his ...

Activists unfurled a banner at the top of the capital’s landmark Arc de Triomphe, reading ‘No to 64’ – Copyright AFP Anne-Christine POUJOULAT France on ...

PARIS (Reuters) -France's education budget is being squeezed by its pension system: of the 90 billion euros earmarked for schools next year, more than a quarter will go to retired teachers rather than ...

Under the plan the minimum retirement age will be lifted to 62 from 60 over the next eight years, and a wave of new levies will come into force from 2011 on capital gains, stock options and other ...

The French government aims to cut tens of billions of euros in spending next year as it seeks to calm investor worries.