Press review from 4 to 10 March 2006. The German press commented this week on the government's annual report on retirement pensions and on the announcement of a series of measures aimed at encouraging "old" workers (55-64) to remain in activity. (Ref. 06234)
Most German newspapers insisted on the call launched by Franz Müntefering, German Minister for Work and social Affairs, exhorting Germans to make the most efforts possible in order to constitute a private pension-savings account. According to the Berliner Zeitung, the social democrat minister was more “frank” that his famous predecessor, Norbert Blüm (CDU), who kept saying every day that: “retirements pensions are safe”.
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