Concerned that the increasing ageing population will affect social security systems, members of the European Parliament, in an own-initiative report, expressed their preoccupation with maintaining the core of European social models and, among other thngs, recommend encouraging higher employment rates.
According to the summary of the non-legislative resolution "Future of social security systems and pensions: their financing and the trend towards individualisation", the Parliament stresses the need to enable flexible retirement on a voluntary basis and suggests that it will necessary to discuss at national level raising the legal retirement age and encouraging workers to remain in employment on a voluntary basis, as long as conditions permit.
Source: European Parliament Press Release (November 20, 2008)
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