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VOTERS IN SLOVENIA are heading to the polls today to decide on whether or not to approve a rise in the age of retirement, a move that many believe is vital for long-term economic stability.
However, opinion polls suggest that voters will reject the change with Reuters reporting that if this happens analysts predict that Slovenia’s credit rating could be cut and there could even be early elections.
The law, passed by parliament in December, would see the legal age of retirement rise to 65 from the current minimum ages of 57 for women and 58 for men.
The staging of the referendum followed demands by trade unions who argued the increase was too steep.
The European Union has urged the increase with Bloomberg reporting that the eurozone country with a population of 2 million people is viewed within the EU as needing to raise its retirement age as the population ages and the budget is put under pressure .
“Slovenia will have to implement the pension reform sooner or later,” EU President Herman Van Rompuy said recently.
Slovenia spends €1.3 billion per year to cover the shortfall in its current pension system.
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Doesn’t the Queen and the leader of the moral high ground Merl strep swear by him
That’s good enough for me
@The Grand Nagus: she felt Roman gud enough to lead the standing ovation, and den lectures people on morals, jesus wept
How respected people like Kate Winslet and Adrien Brody can shake a hand they know has been used to molest a child and say “Can I have a job please, sir?” is beyond me.
@Simon Griffin: they’re s(um and nothing more, the little bit I read into the case was horrifying to say the least
It’s not an award Roman Polanski deserves but castration and not chemically either .
Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown.
Good old feminists mess everything up
@Paul O Faolain: Eh, you know that by making that comment you’ve endorsed 44 yr old men sleeping with 13 yr old girls (he actually raped her). I’d go slither back under the rock you’ve emerged from ya absolute scarlet.
@Padro Touche: drugged her too
@Padro Touche: but pedro hes an artist and they’re to be held to a different standard, didnt u get the memo
“Strange ,I’ve seen that face before ,seen him hanging round my door .Like a hawk waiting for the prey and the night waiting for the day “
-Grace Jones
-song from Frantic
He should be locked up and the key thrown away
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