Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-05-03-Speech-4-022"
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"Mr President, I want first of all to welcome Giorgos Katiforis’s report. It is regrettable that some aspects were deleted in committee and perhaps all those may be restored in today’s vote. I would particularly welcome the proposal for a special pension fund by Member States. It is an issue which has been addressed in Ireland over some years and has now been put in place. Substantial amounts of money are now in a fund which will guarantee pensions long into the future, and this is a very positive development. I make that positive point because I am going to be quite critical of the Irish Government’s position in relation to the broad economic policy guidelines.
For the first time ever an EU state was criticised unanimously, indeed reprimanded, by Ecofin. This was unfortunate, not because it was not necessary, but because we should not the EU find ourselves in such a position that simply feeds euro-scepticism in Europe, particularly in the country which is so reprimanded. Now the Commission has published its guidelines for 2002, all Member States, including Ireland, should openly negotiate its position, make it clear to the public at home what their position is, so that when the time comes and budgets are being implemented based around those guidelines, the public knows exactly why that is being done."@en1
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