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"Madam President, Commissioner, we are here in an orientation debate and the European Parliament wanted to make you pass on a message. However, in the meantime, the world is moving and the question of pensions is being mentioned in addition. I obviously want to mention here the reference to a standardised retirement system, at European level, at 67 years of age, which has been created in what was a draft competitiveness pact. We can clearly see that if we start from there in constructing a social Europe, well, we will be constructing it against the people, and that is not what we want.
In Mrs Oomen-Ruijten’s report, we mention other orientations on many points, and I would ask you, on behalf of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, to take account of that when you develop the Commission’s position around a White Paper, concerning taking account of the issue of gender, which you have not taken into account sufficiently.
We also mention the idea that the best means of deciding the question of retirement is to encourage employment and that rather than fixating on the legal retirement age, we must take account of real age. However, Mrs Oomen-Ruijten’s report contains, in the view of the French Socialists, an indication which poses us a problem, and with which we will not be able to agree. You understand that, for us, the idea that increased life expectancy must automatically be indexed with legal age of retirement constitutes a regressive step in terms of social rights, and one which we cannot support.
Finally, allow me a final word to say to you that, without social dialogue, without the involvement of social partners in the whole of these negotiations, we will go to the wall."@en1
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