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"Madam President, first, I would like to say that the crisis and demographics are combining to confront us with this problem regarding pensions in all the Member States of the European Union.
In the work that is being done, I would first like to welcome the step forward that is the consultation work that the Commissioner told us that she presided over in the development of this Green Paper, but also the work, based on consultation, open-mindedness and compromise, that was carried out by Mrs Oomen-Ruijten in order to draft this report.
I would like to emphasise three points that we absolutely must take into account in order to resolve the problem of the solvency of pensions.
The first point is the inequality faced by women of retirement age, because inequality in employment leads to poverty at retirement age.
The second point, Commissioner, Mrs Oomen-Ruijten, is that I want to make sure that widows’ pensions are saved. We still have a generation of poor women who have not worked during their potential working life and for whom widows’ pensions are the only way of getting a minimum pension.
The third point is the entry of the younger generations on to the labour market. They not only have to face the crisis, but they also have to carry the burden of several generations: their children, their parents and their grandparents.
Finally, that poses the problem of senior citizens, a problem which we must deal with more quickly in our work."@en1
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