Building a fair pension system

Should people who filed for retirement after mid-May 2016 receive a pension that is 25 to 40 percent lower than that collected by those who retired before that date after working the same number of years and paying the same social security contributions? The government and the other political parties think so and are trying to convince the European Union to rescind the relevant law, due to come into effect from the start of 2019 (an election year), which will apply the same rules to calculating the pensions of all retirees. However, intergenerational and intragenerational solidarity and distributive justice and equality dictate the opposite.

Faced with the 2015 decisions of the Council of State that called for main and auxiliary pension cuts enacted in 2012 to be rescinded, the government decided to recalculate all main pensions, citing the equal treatment of old (pre-mid-May...