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Spain to raise retirement age to 67
the official retirement age from 65 to 67 to help the social security system cope with a rapidly ageing population. Finance Minister Elena Salgado said the government will introduce the reform gradually ... have already condemned the it. Spain's employer association has called for the retirement age ...
The right to a dignified old age
tsunami. [media:audio3] Ageing Japan Japan’s ageing population is the largest per capita ... TSWI-right-to-old-age-650.jpg ... . We also look at the right to a dignified old age: American retirees moving to Mexico, Japanese ...
Four percent of world population use cannabis
. A study published in the medical journal The Lancet says four percent of the world population between the ages of of 15 and 64 have had some experience with the drug. Cannabis use is the highest in the United ...
Employers: raise retirement age to 67 later
the proposed raising of the retirement age, the employers' associations VNO-NCW and MKB-Netherlands have ... would become unaffordable, given the contraction of the working population which finances the pension funds. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's cabinet wants 67 to be the standard retirement age, but has ...
Budget cuts will affect old-age pensions
and the aging Dutch population. Social Affairs Minister Piet Hein Donner has to make 400 million euros ...
11th hour for alternative retirement age plan
bondenANP-10950457.jpg The issue of raising retirement age ... that the working population which finances the pension funds is shrinking. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's cabinet wants to gradually introduce 67 as the standard retirement age, but had given the Social Economic ...
Ukraine virus mystery deepens
's one-and-a-half percent of the population. The mystery of the unidentified flu virus in Ukraine ... the world's population needing to place blind faith in to something in order to feel as though someone ... ? Heya Doc, how's it been? Heya Doc, how's it been? new age of information is new age of information ...
Bronze Age man inhabited water-logged north
dig. The local population were cattle and grain farmers and were also involved in fishing ... (archaeology, Bronze Age, Enkhuizen, Wouter Roessingh) ...
1 billion people in Africa: Analysis of an expert
; and the continent’s population structure remains bottom-heavy given that 41% of Africans are aged under 15 years ... to a new report. The continent's population is growing by about 24 million a year, and will double ... activities are on population health and development, with special attention on fertility dynamics in West ...
Dutch EU elections boost for Geert Wilders
religions...What is bad about it? Call this a discussion? Call this a discussion? In every age, the vilest In every age, the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues. Tell me ... was also a great orator who rose on the populism of preaching hatred against people. Jasmine I am ...
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