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"Our pay-as-you-go pension systems are under threat. For clearly identified demographic and economic reasons. Everyone is aware of this. In France, a white paper raised the alarm more than ten years ago. But since then nothing, or nearly nothing, has been done apart from a few reports here and there whose conclusions basically reflected the ideological sympathies of those who had commissioned them. The only thing that has really changed is the imminence of the predicted financial catastrophe.
The French presidential candidates, Chirac and Jospin, have not made any real proposals to save our pensions, which will no doubt save them breaking their promises. And in Barcelona, without the electorate’s knowledge, they, along with the rest, opposed the idea of the French having the right to retire at 60.
What this government lacks – like those which preceded it and most probably those which will succeed it – is determination and political courage. But their salvation will not come from Brussels. It cannot come from the European Union with its free-trade, ultra-liberal ideology, which dreams of allowing private insurance companies to make profits from billions of euro of social security, but which has still not been able to solve the problems of pension rights…"@en1
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