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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-09-24"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Vote2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030924.2.3-139"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-09-24-Speech-3-1402
lpv:speaker	lp:Erik Meijer2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Socialistische Partij (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Czech Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-04-30)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	". The establishment of pension systems used to be considered as a step towards a civilised society. Together, we provided for our future, for security at a stage in life when people are no longer productive. These days, the opinion is peddled that pension commitments are a burden on society whereby the elderly exploit the younger generations. This is not only a result of the changing population pyramid which is becoming much narrower than before, because there are fewer younger people at the bottom and more elderly at the top. It also has to do with short-term thinking, with the encouragement of individual egocentricity and with the advent of individual pension schemes. Often, young people do not realise that they will live much beyond their productivity peak. Also, they often do not realise that people suffer exhaustion faster because work has increasingly become a form of top-class sport. So much productivity is being required from people that many are physically or mentally burnt out long before they reach the pensionable age. In many cases, employers do not want to employ people over the age of 55. However, people who are older than 55 are often very useful in voluntary work, in an advisory role or as childminders. Given these circumstances, it is more obvious to lower, rather than increase, the pensionable age. To refuse a pension to people who can no longer cope with the pressure at work creates problems that cannot be solved."@en1

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