A global agreement before June 28, day planned for the presentation of the economic and financial programming document: this is the government's goal. However, numerous topics are dividing social interlocutors, going from the abolition of the "scalone" - "the big step" planned by the Maroni reform, which brings minimum retirement age to 60 starting in 2008 (see our story n° 070273) - to the refusal of "scalini" - "little steps" or alternative measures proposed by the government to gradually increase minimum retirement age and thus diminish the reform's impact. (Ref. 070550)
The reform’s costs. According to analyses made by the Treasure Ministry, if, in 2008, instead of “scalone” we chose a first “scalino” by moving minimum retirement age forward (after 35 years’ contributions) from 57 to 58 (and then by increasing minimum age of one year every other year) we would have to reinvest 9.3 billion euros by 2016. On the other hand, by moving this age forward from 57 to 59 as early as 2008, we would reduce the cost of 2.5 billion euros in ten years. Abolishing the “scalo
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