{"id":110992,"date":"2025-10-09T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/110992\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:14:07","slug":"germany-may-raise-pension-age-to-73-to-avoid-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/110992\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany may raise pension age to 73, to avoid collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Increasing the retirement age for Irish workers became a major \u00adcampaign issue during the 2020 general election \u2013 and so severe was the backlash that no political party has dared to suggest nudging it upwards since.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This has been the case despite the fact that the primary factor that has made meeting pension obligations such a thorny issue \u2013 collapsing birth rates \u2013 has not remotely improved, and in fact has worsened. The Irish fertility rate has crashed further since 2020 to a calamitous 1.5 per woman, a situation that is almost never discussed and is certain to further worsen as so many of our young people are forced abroad by lack of housing and the cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Increasing the retirement age for Irish workers became a major \u00adcampaign issue during the 2020 general election \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[68960,23335,79,68961,18,6621,19,13484,17,53667,234,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-110992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-68960","9":"tag-baby-bust","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-demographic-crisis","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-imf","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-pension-age","18":"tag-personal-finance","19":"tag-personalfinance"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}