COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / (ae) social

Member states do not have to verify whether EU law applies to pension systems in other member states

Brussels, 04/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 3 March, the European Court of Justice rejected

(C-12/14), the European Commission's appeal against the decision made by the Maltese government to consider Union law as not applying to the complementary pension system in the United Kingdom and that the public pension applied by the latter to certain Maltese citizens should be deducted from the Maltese retirement pension.

The Maltese authorities are effectively reducing the amount of...