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Legal age, capitalization, demography... How our European neighbors go about saving their pension system

2023-02-16T12:23:35.720Z


Across Europe, the same questions are being asked about pensions, but the answers differ. United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium... Our correspondents testify.


Between the absence of an absolute majority in the National Assembly and the strong social mobilization across the country, the French pension reform, which plans in particular to shift the legal retirement age to 64 in 2030 and to accelerating the extension of the contribution period to 43 years from 2027, takes a difficult path.

The pension system in France is however particularly generous.

But what about our neighbors?

While the issues related in particular to demographic change are often similar, what solutions have they adopted?

In London, Berlin, Rome, Madrid and Brussels, the correspondents of Le

Figaro

testify.

Germany: immigration and pension funds to save the system

Pierre Avril, in Berlin

In Berlin as in Paris, the health of the pension system worries the government and the recipients, and with more acuteness across the Rhine if we judge the state of the demography of the country, where the legal retirement age is now set at 65.

In 2030, Germany should have only one…

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Source: lefigaro

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