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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:National strategies for safe and sustainable pensions2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020410.6.3-192"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-10-Speech-3-1932
lpv:speaker	lp:Ioannis Koukiadis2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; EMPL (2002-02-05--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (2002-01-21--2004-07-19)3,3 member; PETI (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3,3 member; PES (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and Delegation for relations with Tadjikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3,3 unknown; Panellinio Socialistiko Kinima (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, this is a big day for Mr Fatuzzo, as the pensioners' ambassador . The main aim of today's report is in fact to investigate how we can help national pension systems achieve the three basic objectives of retaining their capacity to achieve the social objectives which they have set, staying financially viable in the long term and responding to society's changing needs. To put it plainly, they are being asked to adapt without reducing the level of protection or standard of services which they provide. Consequently, as our political group sees it, collective state pensions systems still take priority over purely private systems and are still one of the main ways of redistributing wealth, which is why they must continue to be funded by society as a whole. As I see it, the amendments proposed by the PPE-DE undermine this basis and the balance struck in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Proposing that only health care and social protection should be funded from the state budget, with workers' pensions paid for solely out of workers' and employers' contributions, does away with any notion of solidarity. Similarly, expecting Member States to include the positive impact which reducing the pension burden on contributions would have on the cost of labour and increasing pro rata contributions would have on auxiliary pension funds in their strategies means, to all intents and purposes, that the entire burden of pensions is shifted on to the workers. On the contrary, the whole point of the reform should be to broaden the base of contributors and extend alternative forms of funding. Likewise, the proposal to ensure the reforms are democratically legitimate, by giving the European Parliament a more active role in commenting on national strategy reports and indicators to evaluate results and by extending the social dialogue to include representatives of pensioners, non-governmental organisations and women's organisations, is fundamental to the success of the reform process, which is why I feel that Amendment No 17 should be withdrawn."@en1

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