Italian government has not discussed freezing retirement age, PM says
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 24, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 24, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Italy's PM Giorgia Meloni stated that the government has not discussed freezing the retirement age at 67, countering recent reports.
ROME (Reuters) -The Italian government has not discussed plans to freeze the retirement age at 67, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told reporters on Wednesday.
She was responding to reporters about a report in the Financial Times that said the government was considering this option as part of its 2026 budget measures currently under discussion.
(Reporting by Angelo Amante, editing by Gavin Jones)
No, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stated that the government has not discussed plans to freeze the retirement age at 67.
The statement was in response to a report from the Financial Times suggesting that the government was considering freezing the retirement age as part of its 2026 budget measures.
The information was reported by Angelo Amante, with editing by Gavin Jones.
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