EUROPE - The sustainability of public finances is challenged by poor design of public pensions, which promotes unrealistic expectations, according to European commissioner Joaquin Almunia.
The “clear risk” which these systems posed to public finances in a large number of EU member states also raised doubts about the sustainability of the European social model, added the commissioner ...
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