They are retiring earlier, maybe just by a small margin, but earlier regardless. I think that if you also compare the average tax contribution of those retired people you would see that the level of contributions paid by germans would exceed those paid by Greeks. So a direct age comparison won't give a true picture of fairness.
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This claim has been debunked here: http://blog.zeit.de/herdentrieb/2015/06/18/die-griechische-r...
EU data: Greece 64.4 years, Germany: 65.1.
OECD data: Greece 61.9 years vs. Germany 62.1
So it is actually the same.
Good find. The amount of self-serving disinformation around this whole debacle is disturbing.
They are retiring earlier, maybe just by a small margin, but earlier regardless. I think that if you also compare the average tax contribution of those retired people you would see that the level of contributions paid by germans would exceed those paid by Greeks. So a direct age comparison won't give a true picture of fairness.