Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-02-10-Speech-2-331"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-02-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Demographic trends in the European Union2
dcterms:Language	"es"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040210.13.2-331"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-02-10-Speech-2-3322
lpv:speaker	lp:Juan Manuel Ferrández Lezaun2
lpv:spokenAs	member; G/EFA (2003-07-10--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Partido Aragones (2003-07-10--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2003-08-25--2004-07-19)3 member; AGRI (2003-09-01--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2003-09-01--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, I am grateful for this question because our group is permanently very concerned not just about the problem of ageing, but also the combination of ageing and depopulation. Europe has an increasingly smaller and older population. It will be hard for us to compete if we do not have people suitable for work. I believe the time is coming when we must consider the introduction of a new criterion if we want possibilities for the future, a new criterion based on productive population density. You are Greek, Commissioner. I have been looking at the map of population density in Europe, I have it here in front of me, and it indicates that more than half of your country, more than half of Greece, has a population of less than 50 inhabitants per square kilometre. They are areas with low population densities. However, what would you think if I told you that, as well as that, half of your population is over 50 years old? So we are facing a situation with practically no future. We must start looking into this problem, which is arising in many regions of Europe, in Spain, in Scotland, in France, in certain regions of Italy and also in Greece. The time is coming for us to begin to consider this concept of productive population density because it is necessary to competitiveness, because furthermore we are facing a repeated problem in Spain which we call ‘the fish that bites its own tail’. We cannot take companies to places where there are no people, where there is no productive workforce, and where the productive workforce does not go because there are no companies. We must find a way of breaking this vicious circle. I will go further: in our region, in Aragón, we have tried to move immigrants to rural areas: Latin Americans, Rumanians, Eastern Europeans. Do you know what is happening? They stay for three, five, six months or a year and then leave, to a city or to the coast. We must find some way to break this vicious circle."@en1

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