EUROPE - Germany's opposition CDU party has endorsed a set of principles put forward by a working party under ex-federal president Roman Herzog aimed at stabilising the state pension system and increasing emphasis on private provision.
The party has stopped short, though, of supporting a call by its chairman Jürgen Rüttgers for obligatory top-up pensions. The proposals follow the publication in August of recommendations by the...
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