Greek Deputy Labour Minister: 2027 Review Will Not Raise the Retirement Age; Long-Run Projections Are Not Policy Decisions
Greek Deputy Labour Minister Anna Efthymiou said on SKAI television on November 6 that Greece's 2027 pension review will not raise the retirement age. Greece's statutory age is currently 67 for a full pension with at least 15 years of contributions, or 62 with 40 years, linked one-to-one to life expectancy at 65 and reviewed every three years.
Efthymiou said the higher ages appearing in press reports are neither final decisions nor formal European Commission proposals, but routine three-year demographic and actuarial projections, previous rounds of which were not borne out. She stressed that retirement ages are a national competence and the Commission does not legislate them for Greece.
The discussion was triggered by the European Commission's 2027 Ageing Report, Volume 1, published on November 4, which sets out demographic and actuarial assumptions for 2025 to 2080; the pension-spending volume is due in spring 2027. The work until 72 figure traces to the 2024 Ageing Report's life-expectancy-linked long-run model, under which Greece's statutory age could reach about 72.5 by 2070 for today's teenagers, not a near-term arrangement for current workers. An OECD 2025 projection, using a different methodology, puts the corresponding 2068 age at about 66.
Source: Greek Ministry of Labour
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