WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's two governing parties agreed Thursday on a plan to raise the full retirement age to 67, though the pro-market prime minister had to accept a watering down of his ambitious pension overhaul to placate his junior partner.
Polish law currently allows women to retire at age 60 and men at age 65. Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Civic Platform party want to raise the retirement age to 67 for all Poles to reduce state spending and tackle government debt.
Those intentions have proven unpopular and even caused a rift in his coalition with the Polish Peoples' Party, which supports greater welfare spending by the state. Many people in this ex-communist country are accustomed to a system in which people retire relatively early, with people in some professions retiring in their 50s.
The idea that people in coming years will have to work until age 67 strikes many as a hardship.
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