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"On reading the motion for a resolution from the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, on which we have voted, I am reminded of the painful and shameful episode of the 2003 heatwave in which over 15 000 elderly people died in France. The staff shortage in retirement homes and an unhealthy trend in our societies, especially in my country, that leaves many of our older people alone and destitute are at the root of that tragedy. Nor can I forget, however, the huge responsibility borne by the European Union for the disintegration of our social security systems, through the economic and trade policies that it applies, the budgetary Malthusianism that it tries to impose, and its purely actuarial vision of social security, which it shares with our political leaders. I hold it jointly responsible with the governments that support it for the low levels of wages, purchasing power and pensions. Nor can I forget the death culture that a large number of texts debated in this Chamber convey. Frankly, therefore, I do not feel it is ever relevant to give Brussels any power whatsoever over policies regarding older people, not even the power to draw up statistics."@en1
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