Let’s rethink our pension system

In the context of globalisation and ageing, everybody agrees that short term measures have no future. Since 1960 the average pension length has gone from 8 to more than 20 years. It is expected that in the coming 40 years there will be tree times less actives for every pensioner. Ageing is an insurmountable burden for the future generations. And meanwhile it seems like our government is definitively temporarily. There are however simple solutions, as the Swedish model has shown. Ageing is less a demographic or economic problem than it is a political one. We have to act fast to maintain the vital intergenerational solidarity and rethink our pension system to avoid the clash of… generations.

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