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"Europe and pensions, now that is a sensitive issue. Various Member States are considering arrangements to shrink their national debts by tying pension funds to their debts. Mrs Merkel and Mr Sarkozy have already directly mentioned the centralisation of pensions in their plans for a single, centrally-ruled Europe. I am against any regulation of pensions at a European level. Pension systems are structured differently in the various Member States. They are almost incomparable. In addition, the pension systems in the various individual Member States vary considerably, in terms of size, reliability and supervision. I do not want to see the robust Dutch pension system suffer because of the chaos in some other Member States.
What I do find sensible, however, is that Member States should share information about their pension systems with each other and that they should make efforts to address specific problems by that means. I refer here, for example, to university researchers who move to other Member States, whose tax authorities then collect additional levies on the pensions they have built up elsewhere. An immediate halt should be put to such excesses, but that does not mean that we need to revamp the entire system on a European model."@en1
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