EU staff aim to punish ex-boss Barroso over Goldman job
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The European Commission is refusing to say how much early pension has been paid to José Manuel Barroso since April 2016, but it does make public the way it calculates its pensions. This is the basis of Mediapart's calculations of his monthly pension. At the age of 60 Barroso has the right to 70% of his full pension. For each full year as president of the Commission – he was in office for a total of ten years – Barroso has the right to 4.275% of his final monthly salary. In his case this was in October 2014. But lacking that salary information, Mediapart has instead based the calculations on figures published for Barroso's monthly pay in 2013, which was 25,351 euros. Ten times 4.257% of this leads to an estimated figure of 10,837 euros a month (which is probably slightly too low) for Barroso's full pension entitlement. For his early retirement he is entitled to 70% of this, or just over 7,500 euros a month. This more or less correlates with the estimate published by The Sunday Times when Barroso stood down, which suggested an annual full pension of 102,000 pounds a year or 120,000 euros.
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