European Union - Fighting Aging

European governments must consider raising the retirement age in their countries to ease pressure on public finances and prevent the explosion of their pension systems, the European Commission said. Weak growth, ballooning national debts and higher unemployment "have made it harder" for ...

Tens of thousand of people across Spain protested Tuesday against the debt-laden government's plan to raise the retirement age in the first major protests by unions since the Socialists came to power in 2004. The country's two largest unions, the UGT and ...

Two hundred thousand skilled jobs in Britain will be closed to non-European migrants from November 27, when the new points-based immigration system comes into effect, the Home Office announced yesterday. The official shortage occupations list, published yesterday, which will be opened to ...

An interesting development this year was the discovery by the IT industry of a whole new market for affordable computers of the kind that Asus makes and which has already spawned a host of imitators. But there is an even bigger market ...

Campaigners for age equality today lost a key stage in their legal battle to banish the compulsory retirement age in the UK. Age Concern had gone to the European court of justice in Luxembourg to argue that compelling people to stop work ...

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200,000 jobs barred to non-European migrants

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Campaigners lose key stage in compulsory retirement battle

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