After the State Budget, MEPs Reject in Committee that of the Secu
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Pensions, employer's contributions, supplementary health care, social assistance: in five days, the Members of the European Parliament cut the ECU 2027 budget before rejecting it as a whole. According to the rapporteur-general, the deficit climbs from 12.7 billion to 21.4 billion euros. A 20-step overview, all to be taken up again in the sitting.
This is a bad signal for the government but without any direct consequence, since the text will be debated in the Chamber in its original version from Tuesday.
The executive's text foresees massive savings in order to divide the social security deficit almost by twofold in 2027 - at 12.7 billion, compared with 21.8 billion in 2026 - through, among other things, major efforts requested by pensioners. MEPs, who have been debating this text since Monday in the Social Affairs Committee, have protested in particular against the non-indexation on the inflation of two thirds of retirement pensions, provided f…
MEPs today rejected the 2027 social security budget in the Chamber, and the text will be negotiated in its original version next Tuesday.
In committee, MEPs voted against the unindexing of most retirement pensions on inflation, yet a key measure in Sébastien Lecornu's budget.
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