Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), when he served as Pennsylvania state Treasurer, oversaw investments worth over $31 million in 2006 from the state worker pensions into a Chinese government-backed firm, which has since been considered a national security threat.
“You’re so lucky to be sitting there, now that we’ve arrested you,” one officer was reportedly recorded saying. “I swear, I’d have broken your legs, literally. I can tell you, we’ve broken elbows and faces… but you, I’d have broken your legs.”
Five people have been arrested by French police after the doors to the city hall of Bordeaux were set on fire on Thursday evening amid ongoing country-wide protests against increasing the state pension age.
PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron insisted on the need for raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 in order to make the French pension system financially sustainable in the coming years, in a letter to workers’ unions released Friday.
PARIS (AP) – Roads blocked, oil refineries disrupted, planes grounded and trains halted – unions are threatening to shut down France’s economy this week in what they hope is their toughest riposte yet to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the retirement age.
Macron has vowed to go ahead with the bill, which aims to raise the country’s minimum retirement age, despite nationwide demonstrations and strikes and opinion polls consistently showing a majority of French people oppose the change.
Despite the conventional wisdom that immigration can support an ageing population, the British government – which has been importing migrants on a massive scale – appears poised to increase the state pension age earlier than expected.
