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As the country with the European Union’s fastest ageing population, Germany has repeatedly adjusted its pension system to avert
As the country with the European Union’s fastest ageing population, Germany has repeatedly adjusted its pension system to avert
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2018-06-28
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As the country with the European Union’s fastest ageing population, Germany has repeatedly adjusted its pension system to avert a slow-motion demographic disaster. The biggest reform came during Angela Merkel’s first term as chancellor. Then, as now, Christian Democrats were yoked with Social Democrats in a "grand coalition". In 2007 the coalition decided that the normal retirement age should gradually rise from 65 to 67.
Mrs Merkel has since preached similar demographic and economic wisdom to most of her EU partners, criticizing France in particular for straying off the right path. So it comes as something of a shock that Mrs Merkel, now in her third term and running another grand coalition, is reversing course. On the campaign trail for last September’s election, she promised to raise pensions for older mothers. The Social Democrats countered with promises to let certain workers retire at 63 instead of 65. As coalition partners, they will do both at once.
It falls to Andrea Nahles, the labour minister and a Social Democrat who likes to wave the banner of "social justice" , to push the pension package through parliament by the summer so that it can take effect on July 1st. A previous reform let women with children born after 1992 treat three of their stay-at-home maternity years if they had worked and paid full pension contributions. The new "mother pension" will be for the 8m-9m women who took time off for children before 1992. They will be allowed to count two of those years, instead of just one, as working years for pension purposes.
The second part of Mrs Nahles’s reforms, retirement at 63, is aimed at people who have contributed to the pension system for at least 45 years. But Mrs Nahles wants to count not only years spent working or caring for children or other family members but also periods of short-term unemployment. Separately, she will also boost the pensions of people who cannot work due to disability, and spend more money to help them to recover.
Individually, these proposals may seem noble-minded. But as a package, the plan is "shortsighted and one-sided," thinks Axel Bersch-Supan, a pension adviser at the Munich Centre for the Economics of Ageing. It benefits the older generation, which is already well looked after, at the expense of younger people who will have to pay higher contributions or taxes. "The financial and psychological costs of the pension at 63 are disastrous," Mr Bersch-Supan says. There will no longer be any incentive to keep working longer. In some cases, people may, in effect, retire at 61, register as unemployed for two years, and then draw their full pensions.
Pension system in Germany has been adjusted to______.
选项
A、avert ageing trend
B、tackle ageing problem
C、avoid a natural disaster
D、reduce ageing population
答案
B
解析
细节题。根据pension system和Germany两个关键词定位到第一段首句:As the country with the European Union’s fastest ageing population,Germany has repeatedly adjusted its pension system to avert a slow—motion demographic disaster.答案句为avert a slow-motion demographic disaster“避免人口增长缓慢带来的人口灾难”。选项[A]avert ageing trend“避免老龄化趋势”;文章说的是avert demographic disaster“避免人口灾难”而非“ageing trend”,故该项错误。[B]tackle ageing problem“应对老龄化问题”;文章提到德国fastest ageing population“老龄化速度最快”,又提到avert demographic disaster“避免人口灾难”,可见德围一再调整养老金体系的目的是应对人口老龄化问题,该项表述正确。[C]avoid a natural disaster“避免自然灾害”;文章说的是“避免人口灾害”,该项属于典型的偷换概念。[D]reduce ageing population“减少老龄人口”;该项与[A]类似,老龄人口无法减少,该项错误。综上,本题选择[B]。
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