Betekenis van:
life peer

Voorbeeldzinnen

1. adopt necessary reforms to significantly reduce the budgetary impact of ageing through a reform of the healthcare and pension systems, to be validated by the Economic Policy Committee peer-review process; in particular, adopt a parametric reform of the pension system which should ensure that the pension system is financially sustainable in the light of an ageing population; to this end, the reform should include lowering the upper limits on pensions, a progressive increase in the statutory retirement age of both women and men, and a change in the pension award formula to better reflect contributions paid throughout a person’s professional life and to improve generational fairness and rationalise the system of special allowances for low pensions;