Brussels, 03/04/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 31 March in Brussels, Joaquin Almunia declared, “I want Member States to not hold back on reforms any longer by using the pretext of 2050 being a distant deadline and that demographic and budgetary forecasts have to be scrupulously examined”. He pointed out that only nine EU countries are in a good position for meeting the demographic challenge of ageing (Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia). Stability...