Petra Hielkema, Chair of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and the Joint Committee of European Supervisory Authorities (ESA), outlined the risks that inflation poses to pensions on Monday 24 October at a hearing of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON).
MEP Lídia Pereira (EPP, Portuguese) raised the issue. Concerned about the “demographic precipice” in Europe, she asked Mrs Hielkema what solutions were being...