ECB warns EU may be making wrong assumptions on ageing

Eurostat projections more favourable than those of other agencies – ECB bulletin

Euro sign, Frankfurt
The European Central Bank

Eurozone policymakers need to act to address the fiscal problems posed by a rapidly ageing population, the European Central Bank warns in its latest economic bulletin.

The ECB bulletin article, by Carolin Nerlich, also expresses considerable scepticism about some projections made by the European Union’s statistical agency regarding the ageing issue.

Population ageing calls for “decisive policy action”, warns Nerlich, or it “could have adverse implications for the public debt trajectory and

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