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Related Materials Agenda Costello Bio Event Information Date and Time February 15, 2007 noon - 2:00 p.m. Location CSIS 1800 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.

Declan Costello, who hails from the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission, spoke on “The Economic and Fiscal Impact of Population Aging in the EU.”  He heads up the working group that produces the EU’s long-term projections of public pension and health-care spending.  He talked about the bottom line numbers in the latest projections, the underlying assumptions, and the impact of recent reforms—especially “automatic stabilizers” like those enacted in Sweden and Germany.