Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-10-Speech-3-199"

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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.20020410.6.3-199"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-10-Speech-3-2002
lpv:speaker	lp:Rodi Kratsa-tsagaropoulou2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Nea Dimokratia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the countries of south-east Europe (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, no one disputes that the subject of today's debate lies at the heart of one of the biggest challenges facing the European Union if it is to update its social model and achieve the Lisbon objectives. And the size of the challenge is matched by our responsibility at European and national level to achieve these targets and reform our pension systems. Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, Commissioner, supports your efforts to highlight the importance of these reforms and their financial as well as their social implications and it supports the initiatives being taken to coordinate pension policies through joint objectives, joint working methods and joint monitoring and evaluation of the progress made. We maintain that these policies must be cohesive and must complement coordinated policies on employment, social exclusion and poverty. Because these policies are so sweeping and so important to Europe both now and in the future, they have to be democratic and they have to increase the involvement of the social partners and of social and regional agencies and women's organisations because these social reforms are particularly important to women; and, come what way, the method of open coordination must guarantee that the European Parliament is fully involved. But that alone is not enough. The reforms needed will only be viable if they are supported by the whole of society. Public opinion is unprepared and uninformed. I think the European Commission urgently needs to organise information campaigns in liaison with the national governments and social partners. This is particularly important in Member States which have neglected or do not have the courage to implement suitable reforms and in order to prepare the candidate countries. I should like to congratulate our rapporteur, Mr Fatuzzo, on a serious and detailed report which has our full support."@en1

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