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"Commissioner Diamantopoulou, I too am very much in favour of increasing the birth rate in the European Union, as, moreover, is the Italian Government. Indeed, Mr Maroni has announced that a law which has just entered into force will provide incentives for young couples. I tell my pensioners to do what they can to increase the number of babies born too, and they have assured me that they will do their best. The question I would like to put to you now is as follows. Do you think that just increasing the birth rate will be enough to resolve the problem of pensions and the huge number of elderly people, or is it not equally important to create new jobs? As long as there are unemployed people, the existence of more young people will not solve the problem of the elderly: there will just be an ever-increasing number of young people who are unemployed, who are unable to pay for the pensions of the elderly. Would it not be better to have more jobs as well as more babies?"@en1
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