Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-23-Speech-2-285"
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"Mr President, I too should like to thank the rapporteur warmly for this work that is partly his own and partly the work of others. This is why I should also like to extend a warm thank you to Mr Fatuzzo for his contribution. In my view, it is a little bit of a mixture of the best that the Italian and Swedish cultures have to offer. Milan meets Malmö, if you like. As far as I am concerned, this work should be kept more or less unchanged. It is extremely regrettable that the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left should have tabled these amendments. I have to say, I have listened with great interest to Mrs Ainardi, who reminded me of Louis XVIII who returned after the revolution and of whom people said that he had learned nothing and forgotten everything. I find it even more deplorable that Mr Bouwman appears keen to associate himself with this statement.
We are facing real problems in Europe in the area of pensions. Naturally, we could maintain the pension system, but the best way of eventually destroying it is to do what has been proposed in the amendments by the GUE/NGL Group: to act as if nothing is wrong, while the system does show up inadequacies. After all, when this system was agreed upon, the average lifespan was 63 years, two years under 65. Fortunately, the average lifespan is quite a bit longer now. In the light of this, it is unacceptable for us to say that we could carry on as we are for ever. Mr Andersson is pointing in a certain direction, and this direction receives our support. Pension schemes are slightly different in every country and cannot be compared, but the worst thing is that some people are behaving as some did on the Titanic who, when the ship was sinking, thought that nothing was wrong. This is dangerous. I hope that the majority of this Parliament – and I have every faith in them – want to distance themselves from attitudes of this kind and want to commit themselves to the people who really matter. After all, poor people will not gain in any way if there is no money left in the end."@en1
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