The 20-year-old Toledo Pact, by which Spanish politicians attempted to head off the long-term unsustainability of the national pensions system, is defunct, writes F. Cabrillo of Spanish think tank Civismo. Cabrillo notes that the Spanish roundly rejected plans to import privatized models some decades ago, and now the national pension system is “bankrupt.”
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