Eliminate privileges to prevent pension crisis

If Europe doesn't take action its pension system will collapse in 20 years' time, according to a World Bank report. Poland must therefore abolish the pension privileges of certain professional groups, the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza demands: "The Sejm [the lower house of the Polish parliament] should next year rule that miners and soldiers have to work much longer in future, and be integrated into the general pension system. The same goes for public prosecutors. Each year up to now huge costs have arisen which we - and in particular our children - cannot afford to pay. The debate this newspaper has initiated will perhaps serve to mobilise those whose interests no one represents: the employees who have no pension privileges."

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