Response to the European Commission White Paper "An Agenda for Adequate, Safe and Sustainable Pensions"

On February 16th, 2012, the European Commission published a White Paper entitled “An Agenda for Adequate, Safe and Sustainable Pensions”. It proposes a series of measures related to information and monitoring, European harmonisation and portability, and pension design. The enclosed paper provides a short summary of some of the main challenges facing European pension systems, and then discusses the Commission’s proposals point by point.