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"Although Member States remain fully responsible for the choice and organisation of their pension systems, the fact remains that European economies have become interdependent and that economic governance discussions also focus on the viability and sustainability of pension systems. Therefore the EU has a coordinating role to play.
The rapporteur has gone to great lengths to obtain a compromise; this text contained some good points, not least the idea that pension systems should guarantee all citizens a decent standard of living, that diversity should be respected, that inequalities between men and women are unacceptable and unjustifiable, that a life course approach should be taken and that older workers should be rehabilitated.
However, at the same time, by trying too hard to compromise, we have arrived at a text that is unclear in places and too open to interpretation. In addition, there are still certain ideas that I cannot subscribe to, such as calling upon the Member States to improve citizens’ access to private savings schemes and encouraging work by older people through fiscal and social security exemption measures. For these reasons I abstained from the final vote."@en1
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