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"Mr President, Commissioner, I greatly welcome this report from one point of view, because it highlights the fact that the problem of pensions systems is twofold: financial sustainability and adequacy. We – and I am thinking of countries such as Germany or, in particular, Italy – are laying the foundations for there to be generations of poor pensioners. We will ask for increasingly large contributions to balance our accounts but the size of the pensions they will lead to will steadily decrease. In addition, w
will ask for a superhuman effort to contribute to supplementary pension schemes. I believe that this report
suffers from excessive optimism.
I do not feel that we are being alarmist here. We need to see and state the facts as they are, and the fact is that, in Europe – and I am thinking, as I said before, of countries such as Italy and Germany in particular – we are laying the foundations for our pensioners to be poor, we are digging further holes in our budget. I fear that you have placed too much trust in Member States’ forecasts."@en1
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