If we demand 20 years of contributions (now

There are 15) to be entitled to a pension, and we extend retirement to 67, we are going to punish them.” “in addition to the fact that they have been unemployed for a few years of their lives, now we are going to leave them survivor pensions . What crime have they committed? Well, they have had the misfortune of being caught in two economic crises and are going to have a painful contribution history full of gaps. There are millions of votes and people are not stupid ,” these deputies conclude. “we are risking the vote in the next three electoral calls , our political credibility and, above all, coherence.” get out of politics the aforementioned deputies summarize what they are experiencing with this phrase: “we cannot engage in right-wing politics being, as we are, a left-wing party .” and they see the president of the government and secretary general, rodríguez zapatero, “a prisoner in brussels and in a position to resist at any cost. Felipe would not have let himself be intimidated by brussels or the markets; not in this way... All this has a cost, unfortunately for us,” they conclude.The agreement was sealed during the negotiation carried out between the government and the pnv during this last summer.



In those reserved and closed-door meetings (which were first reported by el confidencial digital – see the news here ), they not only talked about the 2011 general budgets and the transfer of active employment policies to the basque country. At Special Database the table, alfredo pérez rubalcaba and the president of the pnv, íñigo urkullu , also agreed on “preferential treatment” in anti-terrorist matters . Sources familiar with these meetings between both leaders explain to ecd that, thanks to this pact, the government seems to have overcome the old 'quarrels' that existed with the nationalists in the fight against eta. Now, the same sources point out, rubalcaba already “does trust” the drift of sabin etxea and will trust the pnv from now on to try to end eta's violence. The minister has promised urkullu “ privileged ” and “first-hand” information on the operations that are carried out. The government's objective is to rely on an influential partner to achieve the objective. Sources from both parties point out that spain is facing a “ historic opportunity ” to see the end of eta.







And both parties, psoe and pnv, want to take advantage of it: in ferraz they want to go down in history as those who put an end to the gunmen, and in sabin etxea they see with concern the formation of the so-called “ sovereignty pole ”, hence the search for a greater role in the fight against the terrorist gang.As el confidencial digital has learned , mariano rajoy has already ordered legal specialists from genoa to study the so-called 'public health assumption' applied in france in the case of romanians, to incorporate it into the new immigration legislation that the pp will propose in its program for the next general elections. Through this clause, the sarkozy government has proceeded to repatriate troublesome foreign citizens without, thereby, disobeying any international treaty or the free trade bases of the european union, something that the leader of the pp wants to have assured in order to be able to apply the measures prepared for the next legislature.