Barnier and Hutton in broadsheet spat over IORP

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The author of the government's public sector pension reforms has engaged in a public row with a senior European official over European regulation.

Lord Hutton, who reviewed public sector schemes in 2011, said the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority's Solvency II-style proposals for schemes will "create a pension disaster fo...

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