Increased life expectancy and the improved health of older people is one of the proudest achievements of recent social and economic development in Europe. However, in the aftermath of the crises the debate about Europe’s ageing has focused almost exclusively on the impact from the increased pension expenditure and deteriorating old-age dependency ratios on public finances.

Older people are consequently represented as a burden to society and their significant contribution to national social security systems or their role in helping younger people through intergenerational transfers and solidarity remain most often underestimated or merely unrecognised.

AGE seeks to promote an individual right to adequate pension for all.  The intergenerational perspective seems to be a suitable framework to address the issues of both adequacy and sustainability of national social protection systems as this is important not only to older people but to society as a whole.

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