Age-related costs to dwarf impact of financial crisis - EC report

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The cost of an ageing population in Europe is expected to "dwarf" the impact of the current financial crisis many times over, a European Commission report reveals.

The EC said increasing the state pension age could be a way to tackle the problem. The report said: "Though the debt and deficit increases are by themselves quite impressive, the projected impac...

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