Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-17-Speech-4-152"
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So there you have it! Despite all the hypocritical posturing, maintaining our pension systems by dividing them up is the least of your worries. Even if we agree that the vital demographic challenge facing Europe as a whole today is a crucial issue for the Member States, the very least we can say is that we disapprove of the pseudo-solutions which you propose in your report.
The rapporteur has managed to duck the issue in 31 convoluted paragraphs. At no point is there any talk of encouraging the birth rate in Europe or promoting real family policies. The only talk is of how best to manage the demographic collapse and ageing in the Member States, with pension funds authorised in a passing nod to global finance.
provided that, until such time as Europeans are replaced by immigrants, we maintain a modicum of inter-generational ‘solidarity’ by putting women and pensioners out to work, encouraging social breakdown by developing private insurance and promoting the dumbing down (or, to use the rapporteur's new-speak, the open coordination) of pensions.
With the exception of a few paragraphs, the whole report invites a reaction somewhere between anger at how you cave in before what you think of as fate and disgust at the financial, mercenary solutions which you recommend in order to resolve such a challenge.
You prove in the most striking manner, however, that the nation state is by far the only viable and reliable framework within which to organise solidarity and social protection."@en1
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"Après vous, le déluge"1
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