Wednesday, June 16, 2010

France to raise retirement age from 60 to 62



PARIS (AP) - France is to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 in 2018 in an effort to get the country's spiraling public finances under control, the labor minister said Wednesday. Eric Woerth called the measure - already strongly opposed by the opposition Socialist Party and labor unions - a "real moral obligation," given France's burgeoning deficit and its aging population, which he said...

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