António Cotrim / Lusa
Former Finance Minister, Maria Luís Albuquerque
Prepares a “retirement pensions package” to encourage countries to create systems complementary to public pensions.
A European Commission is preparing changes nas reforms for the inhabitants of the countries that make up the European Union, revealed Maria Luís Albuquerque.
Maria Luís Albuquerque is the Commissioner for Financial Services and the Savings and Investment Union. One of its priorities is to safeguard financial stability and create better opportunities for citizens to improve their own financial security.
In this sense, he said that Brussels wants to “present a package on retirement pensions”, to encourage countries to create systems complementary to public pensions.
The idea is part of the Savings and Investment Union. It will serve to democratize access to investment and ensure that “citizens, families, have opportunities and incentives to invest in your own future“.
Faced with “complicated demographics” on the continent, the European Commission is trying to prevent future income insufficiency.
In , Maria Luís Albuquerque said that the objective is enable families to “put their savings to work”, even when disposable income is “limited”.
One of the European Commission’s recommendations is to create a European savings and investment account without minimum amounts – which allows the participation of who has little money.
“We deliberately proposed that there be no minimum amounts. It will be for example for a family, [ou] a young man, who still has a relatively low salary, [e que] you can only set aside 10 euros per month, [então] it has to be possible to invest those 10 euros”.
In other words, the new proposals from Brussels want anyone, even with small savings, prepare a “safer” financial future.
Hoping to move away from the idea “that there is any conflict between the national interest and the European interest”, the European Commission plans to present all the measures planned between 2025 and 2027.
