{
  "id": 13712727,
  "title": "France protects its most modest retirees better than Germany, but it finances its generous retirement system on credit",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/11/la-france-protege-mieux-ses-retraites-les-plus-modestes-que",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-11T12:00:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde Economie",
    "slug": "le-monde-economie",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/10/11/la-france-protege-mieux-ses-retraites-les-plus-modestes-que-l-allemagne-mais-elle-finance-son-systeme-de-retraite-genereux-a-credit_6791781_3232.html"
  },
  "original_language": "fr",
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  "summary": "The French State devotes 12.8% of its GDP to old-age spending, compared to 10.4% in Germany. And it does so on a narrower active base, which explains its significant public debt, estimates economist Pierre-André Buigues, in an article in Le Monde.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}