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Wants to Stop the Increase of the Danish Retirement Age

» Updated: 14 August 2024, 10:20

» Published: 13 August 2024

Wants to Stop the Increase of the Danish Retirement Age
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Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) wants to stop future increases in the retirement age in the country, she says in an interview with the newspaper Berlingske.

She wants to see an end to the automatic increase in the retirement age as Danes live longer.

The automatic increase in the retirement age, which we do not believe in anymore. In our eyes, you cannot just continue to say that people have to work one year longer – and therefore our clear message is that the agreement must be renegotiated, says Mette Frederiksen to the newspaper.

The conditions for increasing the retirement age are part of the so-called Welfare Agreement, which the Social Democrats, Venstre, and the Conservative People's Party, the Radicals, and the Danish People's Party agreed on in 2006.

According to the agreement, the Folketing shall decide every fifth year whether to increase the retirement age further. Next year, 2025, it is time for a vote again, and then the decision applies to whether the retirement age should be increased to 70 years from 2040 onwards.

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