As reported in the Washington Post, 14 countries across Europe plan to increase their retirement ages, and some of them may be as high as 69 years old.
Some examples include Italy, which is planning to boost the retirement age from 65 to 69; Ireland, from 66 to 68; Germany; from 65 to 75; and Greece, also from 65 to 67.
The Post reports that these countries are looking to push back retirement further in an attempt to rein in spending related to retirement costs and pensions. If pensions for millions of people are pushed back by two or three years, the money saved will be significant.
Mario Monti, the Italian prime minister, recently expressed regret that European austerity measures are causing difficulty for so many people, including those in their retirement years.
“We have real and human problems in front of us in an inhuman economic situation,” the newspaper quoted him as saying recently at a conference in the Italian city of Bologna.
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