Brussels, 21/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - When calculating retirement pensions, member states can exclude the period when a person was unable, from a legal point of view, to have a pension or pay into a pension scheme.
It is on the basis of an Austrian civil servant, who sought to calculate his pension rights by taking into account the years he had spent studying before he was 18, that the European Court of Justice reached this conclusion in a ruling (C-529/13).
The interested party took the...