The debate over the government’s announcement to anticipate the raising of the retirement age to 67, and the labour dispute which is brewing in the German public sector because of the increase in working hours, dominated the German social news last week. (Ref. 06101)
Retirement age: 67. The government announced this week that it wanted to raise the retirement age to 67 by the year 2029. This took everyone by surprise in Germany. “A debate on pensions never finished so quickly”, said the conservative daily newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). The discussion had not even started, underlines the FAZ, that the Council of Ministers had already approved the measure.
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