Brussels, 22/02/2013 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling returned on 21 February (case 282/11), the Court of Justice of the EU states that the Spanish rules on the method of calculating the old-age pension are against Union law, as they do not take sufficient account of periods spent by the individual in question working in another member state.
Spain makes the allocation of a contribution-based retirement pension conditional on a contribution period of at least 15 years. The “base amount” of...