Having long been held up as a model, the Austrian pension system is now becoming increasingly costly for the federal government, which is seeking to reduce its deficits. As such, the leaders of parliamentary of coalition government, which brings together the Conservatives (ÖVP), the Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Liberals, announced a package of measures at the cabinet meeting on 18 June that was described as historic by the leader of the Liberal Party (Neos) parliamentary group, Yannick Shetty
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