Donald Tusk is not the only politician with a euro pension. Thousands of zlotys are also collected by others

The current transition age for the staff of the European Union institutions is 66, but Donald Tusk exercised his right and retired earlier, from April 2022, according to the findings of “Fact”, which confirmed this with EU officials. As the daily found out, he is not the only one who receives a European pension.

European pension for politicians. Who gets it?

MEPs can take early retirement when they turn 63.

the following politicians receive such a pension:

• “Tadeusz Cymanski (68 years old) – MP from PiS, previously member of the European Parliament. Now he gets 18,000. 510 euros per annum pension, i.e. approx. 7.2 thousand. PLN per month. Plus receives a benefit from ZUS – approx. PLN 3.7 thousand. PLN gross per month.
• Janusz Korwin-Mikke (81 years old) – currently MP of the Confederation. He was an MEP in 2015-2019. Downloads 13k 804 euros of pension per year, i.e. approx. 5.3 thousand. PLN per month. In addition, he receives a benefit from ZUS (in 2020 it was a total of PLN 15,400 gross).
• Boleslaw Piecha (69 years old) – currently a PiS MP, previously a member of the European Parliament in 2015-2019. He receives about 5.6 thousand per month. PLN pension from the EP, in addition 6.2 thousand. PLN gross pension from ZUS.
• Joanna Senyszyn (74 years old) – currently a member of the parliamentary group of the Polish Socialist Party (PPS), previously a member of the European Parliament. I have 18 thousand. EUR 510 pension per year from the EP, i.e. approx. 7.2 thousand. PLN per month, plus a benefit from ZUS – approx. PLN 12.8 thousand. PLN gross per month.
• Tadeusz Zwiefka (69 years old) – KO MP, previously MEP. I have 25,000 EUR 745 per annum pension from the EP, i.e. approx. 10,000 PLN per month. In addition, he also has a benefit from ZUS – about 5.4 thousand. PLN per month.

Donald Tusk infuriated PiS politicians

“Fact” reports on the retirement of the PO leader, including the Prime Minister The head of the government pointed out that Donald Tusk’s government raised the retirement age by two years.

He raised the retirement age for all Poles to 67, and he quickly took advantage of the fact that PiS threw away his increase in the retirement age

Morawiecki said.

“Extended retirement age for Poles, earlier Euro-retirement for myself. Honestly,” Szymon Szynkowski vel Sęk, the Minister of European Affairs, wrote in turn.

“I recommend Donald Tusk, the richest pensioner in Poland at the age of 65, to catch up in education http://reparations-for-poland.com. After reading, we are waiting for the apologies of millions of Poles” – commented Arkadiusz Mularczyk, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.