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All societies face the question of how to pay for the increased cost of pensions.
Currently 4 workers support every pensioner. This will reduce to 2 workers by 2025. Each Member State will have to adopt its own mix of solutions. More and more are considering increasing their reliance on funded schemes to maintain benefits. I believe that allowing funds to benefit fully from the single European capital market and the euro, can contribute towards a solution by making pensions, both affordable and secure.