Denmark It is about to become the first country in Increases the pensionable age of 70 yearsA measure that has been strongly criticized by future pensioners.
The Scandinavian country has connected the new pension age to the life expectancy and will influence only those who were born after January 1, 1971.
The limit will increase from the current retirement age from 67 years to 68 years in 2030 and then at 69 years old in 2035. The Danish government has examined the retirement age every five years in the last two decades and this new rule It was approved on Thursday in Parliament with 81 votes in favor and 21 against.
However, the Social Democratic Prime Minister puts FrederiKsen had already said that these figures would be renegotiated. “We no longer believe that the retirement age must be automatically increased,” he says. Frederiksen says that his party believes it “You can’t continue to say that people have to work for another year.”
In recent weeks there have been demonstrations in Copenhagen to protest against new changes from the unions. The president of the Confederation of the Danish union, Jesper Ettup RasmussenHe said before Thursday’s vote that the proposal was “completely unjust”.
“A higher retirement age means that people They will lose the right to a decent life in the elderly“Rasmussen said in the statements collected by Daily email.
“Denmark has a healthy economy and again The highest retirement age in the EU“He complains about the leader of the Union.
Him Mail He also collects opinions from workers such as Tommas Jensen, a 47 -year -old roof: “We are working and working, but we cannot continue. I paid my taxes for life. There should also be time to be with my children and grandchildren. “
