{"id":754810,"date":"2026-06-23T10:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754810\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T10:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T10:08:16","slug":"germanys-merz-says-hell-push-ahead-with-plan-to-raise-pension-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754810\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s Merz Says He\u2019ll Push Ahead With Plan to Raise Pension Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Germany is looking at a new mandatory pension contribution that would funnel billions into capital markets as part of a broad effort to shore up the country\u2019s retirement system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The measure is part of a reform agenda that will overhaul Germany\u2019s social welfare system. Chancellor Friedrich Merz, receiving proposals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-06-21\/germany-weighs-pension-system-revamp-with-capital-market-element\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">presented by a commission<\/a> alongside Social Democratic Labor Minister B\u00e4rbel Bas, accepted the full slate of pension measures, which also include a gradual increase in the retirement age and tighter rules on leaving the workforce early. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany is looking at a new mandatory pension contribution that would funnel billions into capital markets as part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,79354,5471,99,13113,186,5717,1788,171,184,185,84,1836,12869,184328,4200],"class_list":["post-754810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-berlin","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-capital-markets","tag-finance","tag-germany","tag-labor","tag-markets","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-politics","tag-public-health","tag-retirement-age","tag-social-democratic-party-of-germany","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}