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https://www.ft.com/content/d419bd2d-a6ba-44a5-a93a-1276f3e5d...

This is the article I was thinking of. I don't think we can pretend that pensions are not a problem, and not a massive strain on government budgets. Incomes of pensioners have increased a lot more than incomes of working-age people, and French over 65 earn more than French working-age (slightly different claim than I made).

What do you want, when you stress that retired people earn too much

I want to pay less into unsustainable pension system and to be able to save for my own future instead. I would love more of Europe to get a system similar to Australia's superannuation system.

I don't know why everyone is being so dismissive. Pensions in Europe nowadays are just transfers from young and poor to older and wealthier. The average French pensioner (not working) has a higher income than the average French worker (working).

Trump 2 is worse than Trump 1 by far from EU perspective. And it also proved that it wasn't a once-off that Americans will vote in someone who threatens to dismantle NATO, invade Greenland, or start trade wars with allies for no reason.

Forcing a company to do business with another company is insanity.

This already happens all the time, and especially in telecommunications. Interconnection is a core of telecommunications law everywhere.

Yeah, I think there is some confusion in this thread. eu-inc.org isn't an official source or anything, though von der Leyen did say "EU Inc" in her speech at Davos. The European Parliament specifically mentioned not liking "incorporated" because it was American terminology preferring "Societas Europaea Unificata" instead which is pretty funny.