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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7900

10 February 2001
Contents Publication in full By article 28 / 35
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/social
Bolkestein speaks of EU contribution to defusing pensions "timebomb"

Brussels, 09/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The problem of pensions is no less than a timebomb threatening the European economy. Without reforms, public deficits risk worsening and will prevent countries from continuing to meet the criteria for belonging to the euro. This, in substance, is the warning that Frtis Bolkestein, Commissioner responsible for the internal market, sent out at a seminar on the future of pensions organised by the Friends of Europe in Brussels on 6 February, and in which...

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