Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-09-13-Speech-2-351-500"
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"en.20110913.34.2-351-500"2
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"Women over 50 are a great part of our society and a valuable asset of any enterprise as well as their local community, and it is offending to this demographic to label them as not ambitious, smart or organised enough to continue working or to move back into employment. The obligation for Member States to include such women in lifelong learning schemes and support flexible retraining programmes should be made on a domestic level and pertain to cultural peculiarities. We can be proud of many working women in the United Kingdom, who are not just the cornerstone of society but both vibrant and inspirational to younger generations. We do not require the EU to tell us how to promote such activity in the fight against gender or age discrimination which will indubitably serve as a further bureaucratic burden to businesses and contribute to the sort of wasteful positive discrimination that puts a stranglehold on the workplace. I do not believe that the creation of yet another EU event to designate 2012 as the European Year of Active Ageing, in a time of financial and unemployment crisis, is either responsible or SME-friendly."@en1
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