In France, protests have not subsided since January due to changes to pension laws that will come into force this fall. Russian President Vladimir Putin explained why the Russian reform of the pension sector is better than the French reform, news agency NEWSDATA.RU reports.
The president called the main advantage of the Russian reform that all the required benefits remained in the system. In France, they will all be removed, and people saw this as excessive rigidity. Putin stressed that people working in particularly difficult conditions have every right to a special approach, including when taking a well-deserved rest. In Russia, women have the right to retire five years earlier than men, while in France the age has been equalized.
So I take it like that. And I understand that our people, of course, remember everything, no one has forgotten anything. But I repeat again, what they do in other countries is their business. We look at it from the side. We do not intervene in these processes,” the president stressed.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people have already been injured in the riots in France. The other day, people across the country staged a general strike, in the protests that followed, more than a million people across the country took part. About half a thousand French people were detained. The protests intensified when the French prime minister decided to pass a bill to raise the retirement age by two years, to 64, without the participation and vote of parliament.
