20. Notes the contribution that may be made by working longer and, at the same time, realises that workers generally do not work until the age at which they are entitled to draw full pension; takes note of the fact that employees in the most onerous occupational categories tend to retire earlier than others; considers that, in view of demographic trends and the need to ensure that pensions can be paid for, it is necessary for more people to participate in the labour market on a long-term basis; stresses that one of the important priorities for achieving sustainability is to enable people to work until retirement age without discrimination, by implementing ...[+++] adequate enhancing policies with regard to employment and social provision – e.g. discouraging early retirement, introducing financial incentives and securing lifelong learning and adequate healthcare;

But the real test of your rapporteurship and for this Parliament is to ensure that we use our influence to secure, year by year, steady progress in shepherding Turkey towards accession, and that requires leadership here as well as in the country.

– Mr President, I would also like to pass on my best regards to Mr Karlsson, thank him for his presentation and all the work he has done over the past few years.

22. Believes that there is scope for developing schemes whereby both the established and the young farmer work together to develop the farm, each providing a combination of experience and innovation; points out that schemes such as share farming, (where the established farmer provides land and capital while the young farmer provides skills and labour) can be successful; points out, however, that such schemes can only be developed where there is a regulatory framework which ens ...[+++]ures that neither party will be exploited by the other;

So, when the minister introduces this notion of dependant children to justify bringing the UI benefit rate down from 57 to 55 per cent for all recipients, a rate which is getting close to the US rate by the way, when the minister uses that excuse to say: ``How generous. We do have the well-being of the less fortunate at heart'', he is actually taking us back to the dark old days when women had to prove they were worthy in their private lives of being recognized as independent, single mothers who needed adequate support (1750) That is why I want to denounce as a fraud a budget speech which is supposed to be liberal and progressive, but is ...[+++] in fact bringing us back to the days before the 1970s reform.

Fjord Line was founded in 1993 and has roughly 630 employees, of which 175 work on land in Bergen, Stavanger, Egersund, Langesund, Kristiansand, Hirtshals, Sandefjord and Strömstad while 455 work at sea all year.