Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/1999-09-14-Speech-2-137"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.19990914.5.2-137"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:translated text |
"Mr President-designate, while I was listening to your address this morning, at one point you made me jump because you said ‘the pensioners are here’.
I said to myself, “he has spotted me”, but you had your back turned to me. Thank you, Mr President, for having unintentionally quoted me because I have come to the European Parliament as leader of the Pensioners’ Party to represent for the first time the needs of the elderly. So this statement by Mr Prodi, in which he went on to say that he will keep matters relating to pensioners in mind, has given me hope for what the next few years will bring.
I must say that I and the pensioners who sent me here to seat 270 of the European Parliament were pleased by the comment made by Mrs Anna Diamantopoulou. When she replied to one of my questions during the hearings – and we should point out what did not go well but also what did – she said that she is fully aware of the issue concerning the elderly who expect a pension which the fifteen Member States are no longer able to pay because the pension funds are weak and are in deficit.
The elderly live for too long, and we and our supporters will do our best to make our lives as short as possible, but I am afraid this will not be enough. So I hope that the European Parliament and the Commission will finally speak out for the elderly so that the fifteen Member States give them the respect they deserve and, above all, establish rules that ensure that the money people have to pay every month is safe, so that they will have a pension in the future."@en1
|
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples