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Outrage over VAT hike for pension reform
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Under 40’s to pay into private pensions
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Hungary-Poland
Private pension funds seized
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United Kingdom
Paris calling, but why not London?
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Pension reform can wait
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Stability pact
That figures
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Pensions
Will Brussels make us work till 70?
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BP spill sinks British pensions
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Economic crisis
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Eurocities' growing voice
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16 July 20092România libera Bucharest
While millions are taking to the streets of France to protest against the Sarkozy government’s proposed raising of retirement age, England, once the scene of anti-Thatcher riots in the nineties is quiet as her heirs in the Cameron adminstration implement the severest cuts in living memory. 
The campaign against pension reform has provided a catalyst for other movements that are less easily controlled. Now that marching workers have been joined by huge numbers of secondary school students, the French press worries about a situation that could soon get out of hand. 
What with service stations out of petrol, protesters setting cars on fire, schools closed, the mass demonstrations against the pension reform are plunging France into chaos. But it’s not just about pensions: the people are up in arms about what many consider an unjust system. 
In a green paper on pensions, the European Commission argues that EU citizens will have to come to terms with an inevitable need to increase retirement age. The European press is not convinced. 
In the wake of Barack Obama’s decision to give the EU summit miss, José Luis Zapetero’s EU presidency is languishing. If only his problems were confined to the European stage. With the Spanish economy on the rocks, the national press, many with knives out, remarks that the president is going through an unprecedented crisis. 
In 2008, nearly one out of two Romanians obtained social benefit. With comfortable pensions for some and long maternity leave for others, the unemployed remain sidelined, reports România Libera, while the better off reap full advantage of a generous system.