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"As social security, public services and the level of prosperity improve, and the environment becomes cleaner, people’s life expectancy grows. And with it the group that is dependent on a pension. While pensions are crucial for older workers, there are young people for whom retirement is a long way off and rich people who do not need a pension scheme. If you deem pensions unimportant, then you will consider them to be a liability which leads to higher taxes and premiums. Some politicians will seize this as an opportunity to call for freedom of choice, commercialisation and state withdrawal. Governments look into options for cutting costs or have saved insufficiently for sustainable pension provision. On this basis, an agreement was reached in Barcelona to increase the pensionable age by an average of five years by 2010. At the same time, workers are fighting to have the pensionable age reduced to 60 or 55. As was the case here in Strasbourg on 7 February, when public transport ground to a halt for the entire day. As long as pressure of work continues to rise because the working population is required to deliver maximum productivity, we should not be surprised if people burn out at an increasingly younger age. This is why I opt for the variant of a guaranteed pension for everyone, so that people can retire at a reasonable age without being condemned to a life of poverty."@en1
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