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The European Commission has recently published its “Green Paper towards adequate, sustainable and safe European pension systems” (COM (2010) 365/3). This paper, in its own words, “launches a European debate… on the key challenges facing pension systems…” (p.3). This debate has in fact been running for at least twenty years, but it is again moving to the forefront of the political agenda. It is impossible to fully address the comprehensive analysis and the fourteen questions raised by the Commission for public consultation (responses by interested parties are requested by 15 November 2010) here, but it is worth highlighting some issues arising from this paper, which have not been discussed widely before. We would also like to take this opportunity to share some of the insights obtained from...
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