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"On the pretext of seeking to guarantee ‘safe and sustainable pensions’, the Fatuzzo report subscribes to the liberal ideology of attacking pensions.
In this report, we are treated to all of the current commonplaces on the subject, the main one being that the pensions problem is above all a demographic issue.
I do not think that there is a ‘pensions problem’; the problem which haunts the whole of Europe is above all a problem of unemployment. A society of full employment would not have any problems with pensions. That is why I am in favour of a massive recruitment policy in the public services and a ban on mass redundancies in profit-making companies, and why I am against a cut in employers’ contributions.
If we defend pensions, we are defending the interests of the world of work, and an increase in the retirement age, as the Barcelona Summit recently recommended, is unacceptable.
It is out of the question to attack the pay-as-you-go pension system with pension funds, as has been proposed.
We are in favour of European workers all contributing for the same period of time, and no pensioner should have a pension that is lower than the minimum wage, which should moreover be increased."@en1
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