4 Amendments of Jean-Pierre AUDY related to 2012/2234(INI)
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas rising unemployment has hurt pay-as-you-go pension schemes, while funded systems are hit by disappointing financial markets returns and capital risk;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises the likelihood of a long- term, low-growth economic scenario, which will require Member States to consolidate their budgets and reform their economies under austere conditions through sound management of public finances; subscribes, therefore, to the view expressed in the Commission’s White Paper that people will need to build up complementary occupational and if possible private pension savings;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that first-pillar pensions remain the most important source of income for pensioners; calls on Member States to implement reforms to their first-pillar systems aligning contributory years to the changing life expectancy and ratio between pensioners and people in working age, also to prevent public pension costs crowding out other important government spending; calls on the Member States to ensure first-pillar pensions - if necessary complemented by minimum income provisions - to provide a decent minimum income;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls for funding to be provided to cover the EU’s liabilities relating to European institution staff pensions, which stood at EUR 34.835 billion on 31 December 2011;