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"The Commission has declared 2012 to be the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity Between Generations. A vague concept like ‘active ageing’ could encompass many different ideas, which becomes clear in the contradictions of the report. On the one hand, it places an emphasis on the need for better employment opportunities, better health and safety conditions at work for older workers and more active policies regarding family affairs, and it addresses the issue of people with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
On the other hand, there is cross-cutting support for the increase in the retirement age, and it points out that one of the effects of demographic ageing will be a change to European social models. It is thus necessary to reduce ‘the strains on health, pensions and social care systems’. We cannot back views that aim to align retirement age with average life expectancy (in their more extreme versions), as this constitutes an intolerable step backwards in terms of civilisation which even contradicts the struggle against unemployment. These are views that tend to ignore factors like the prospects opened up by scientific and technological progress and its profound impacts on the increase of productivity at work and which attempt to increase opportunities for exploiting the labour force."@en1
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