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In the vote on the Karas report on institutions for occupational retirement provision, the French Socialist delegation voted in favour of the motion for rejection tabled by the GUE/NGL Group. We believe that the funding of retirement pensions should be based on the principle of contributory schemes. Furthermore, the text submitted to us at second reading is not acceptable and the subsequent proposals of Commissioner Bolkestein and the amendments voted for by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs do not sufficiently improve the balance of the text.
Institutions for occupational retirement provision cannot be treated as mere financial instruments – they should be thought of as a form of social protection. It is not a question of encroaching on the prerogatives of the Member States in the social field, but of the will of the European Parliament, the body representing the citizens, to stress the social importance of the text. Since the first reading, we have fought to have the basic principles of biometric risk, regular information for participants and control of these institutions integrated into the text.
Today, on the sole pretext of avoiding having to go to the conciliation stage, the rapporteur, with the complicity of the Commissioner, is prohibiting this House, a co-legislator, from defending the interests of the citizens. We reject this forced takeover."@en1
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