Slovakia moves to secure pension reforms

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SLOVAKIA - The Slovak centre-right wing government is seeking to adopt a constitutional law to guarantee that proceeds from future privatisations are only used to fund the proposed pension reform.

The government plans to use proceeds from privatisations worth up to e2.5bn to finance the pay-as-you-go state pension system that is suffering from a lack of funds since many Slovaks have opted to...

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