
Tribunes by Bruno Alomar on European standards and Maxime Sbaihi on retirement pensions
Le Figaro publishes two columns: Bruno Alomar criticizes the excess of industrial standards in the EU, while Maxime Sbaihi denounces the generational inequity of the French retirement system, pleading for the removal of the tax relief for retirees.
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The Rhine Group analyzes the normative obstacles to European industry. The French retirement system is criticized for its financial burden on assets.
Bruno Alomar: “Mario Draghi is right, excess standards are killing European industry! »
FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE - The Rhine Group, a think tank which brings together European academics and business leaders around Mario Draghi, has highlighted the deleterious consequences of the EU's normative excesses in industry and energy, explains the former senior official at the European Commission.
Maxime Sbaihi: “It is only in France that pension levels respond to electoral logic”
FIGAROVOX/INTERVIEW - The economist* is in favor of eliminating the tax allowance for retirees. According to him, the French system suffers from generational inequity in which workers are the big losers, since 28% of their salary is used to pay retirement pensions.

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