Reviving Europe’s Competitive Edge analyses the European Union’s declining influence in the global economy and recommends concrete steps for the Commission on how to regain our economic competitiveness.
The French people are in a continuous state of anxiety about pensions, but they do not see the common thread connecting all of them: the ageing of a society that is ill-prepared for it.
The development of personal pensions at the national and cross-border levels is hindered by high compulsory payments to public pension funds, restrictions on the participation of the self-employed and the unemployed, rules governing access to retirement savings, taxation of retirement income and other national legal requirements.