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This claim has been debunked here: http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/2015/06/18/die-griechische-rentenluege_8472 http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/2015/06/18/die-gr
by quonn 11y ago
This claim has been debunked here: http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/2015/06/18/die-griechische-rentenluege_8472 http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/2015/06/18/die-griechische-r...
EU data: Greece 64.4 years, Germany: 65.1.
OECD data: Greece 61.9 years vs. Germany 62.1
So it is actually the same.
- rorykoehler 11y agoGood find. The amount of self-serving disinformation around this whole debacle is disturbing.
- celticninja 11y agoThey are retiring earlier, maybe just by a small margin, but earlier regardless. I think that if you also compare the average tax contribution of those retired people you would see that the level of contributions paid by germans would exceed those paid by Greeks. So a direct age comparison won't give a true picture of fairness.