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"Mr President, the President of the Commission, Mr Barroso, has mentioned ageing and globalisation as two of our key challenges. It is important that we should put the former at the very top of the political agenda. The ageing of the population in Europe is, in fact, not so much a challenge as a life-threatening problem, not only in terms of keeping our social security systems, and therefore our economies, intact, but also, quite simple, of securing the continued existence of European peoples.
Moreover, solutions are sometimes put forward that only make matters worse, in fact. Just think of the plea for fresh, large-scale immigration. The Commission has published a Green Paper in a bid to explore this route. Whilst this may serve the short-term interests of some companies or industries, you can certainly not count on public support for it. The problems are already incalculable as it is. If the EU wishes to alienate itself from the public even more, then it should go down this route. A real solution is to encourage young families to have more children, and to create a favourable climate for this. If that is not done, the Lisbon objectives are nothing but empty words."@en1
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