The EU countries in the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, will also increase its statutory retirement age to 67 years. Britain and Ireland 2020 even the statutory retirement age to 68 years. (End)
China news agency, Berlin, January 29 (Reporter Huang Shuanghong) - held in 29 southwest of the CDU party congress, President of the CDU, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed that citizens of some EU countries should pay attention to the retirement age, that should not be between countries so different in this regard.
election situation in the Midwest, despite Merkel's speech an attempt to win hearts and minds, but the EU is facing a financial crisis, the pension is an important source of finance have gaps, countries have to take means to reform social welfare system. Since last year, a series of EU countries, the pension reform to raise the statutory retirement age, yet in such as Greece, France, Spain and other countries caused strong protests from citizens. The current mandatory retirement age for Germany to the highest in Europe, and the actual retirement age in the civil statistics, Germany to 62.3 years higher than the EU average age of 61.4 years.
Merkel that some EU countries must carry out social welfare reform to meet the debt crisis. She said that citizens of some EU countries, the retirement age of 60, while Germany shift the retirement age to 67 years old, so very unfair, because all EU countries have the problem of population aging. Her strong words to say:
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