Enrolment in supplementary pension plans is low especially among the groups whose public pensions are likely to be smallest – self-employed workers, young people and women, all penalized by the greater variability and discontinuity of their earnings.
In reality we will hardly get a higher degree of manoeuvrebility in the economic policy by staying outside – quite the contrary. If we decide to stay outside, we have to make sure that it is not mistakenly seen as a signal of less commitment to sustainable economic policy.