Pensions
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Germany: Heading for ‘à la carte’ pensions?
18 April 20136711PresseuropDie Tageszeitung -
Pensions: A new life for your old age
3 April 201313812 Respekt Prague -
Social Issues: Living the mini-life
2 April 201253 Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich -
Debt crisis: Czech Republic's rating increases
25 August 2011PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
United Kingdom: Politicians united against mass strikes
29 June 2011PresseuropThe Independent -
Czech Republic: Outrage over VAT hike for pension reform
10 March 20111PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES -
Pensions: Everyone will work longer, except Poles
7 February 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Spain: Green light for pension reform
28 January 20111PresseuropABC -
Poland: Warsaw launches pension shakeup
25 January 2011PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
Czech Republic: Under 40’s to pay into private pensions
21 January 2011PresseuropLidové noviny -
Hungary-Poland: Private pension funds seized
14 December 201090PresseuropHospodářské Noviny -
Tyunin: The retirement project
26 October 201019 Kommersant Moscow -
United Kingdom: Paris calling, but why not London?
21 October 20102702 The New York Times New York -
France: Are things getting out of control?
19 October 2010821 Presseurop -
France: This isn't just about pensions
19 October 20102011 Frankfurter Rundschau Frankfurt -
Portugal: Pension reform can wait
19 October 2010PresseuropJornal de Negócios -
Strikes: Meet France’s Number 1 scroungers
13 October 2010PresseuropBlog -
France: Strike spreads, Marseilles blocked
13 October 2010PresseuropLibération -
Stability pact: That figures
18 August 2010PresseuropPúblico -
Pensions: Will Brussels make us work till 70?
8 July 2010902 Presseurop -
Oil industry: BP spill sinks British pensions
10 June 20101PresseuropThe Daily Telegraph -
FRANCE: French debate legal retirement age
26 May 20101PresseuropLibération -
Spain: Zapatero zapped by friends and foes
5 February 2010144 Presseurop -
Spain: Madrid to push retirement age to 67
1 February 20101PresseuropEl País -
Economic crisis: Dr Brussels reads Greek patient riot act
1 December 2009PresseuropEleftherotypia -
Retirement : Bad news for future Dutch OAP's
1 October 2009PresseuropDe Volkskrant -
Immigration: Eurocities' growing voice
18 August 2009PresseuropEUobserver.com -
Military: Poland's Dad’s army
5 August 2009PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Romania: Some benefits are more equal than others
16 July 20092 România libera Bucharest
Enjoying your retirement under a tropical sun on the other side of the world is no longer the preserve only of western Europe’s wealthy elite. Increasing numbers of Czech pensioners are abandoning their homeland in order to “wipe out the winter." 
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.