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"Mr President, Commissioner, I should like to begin by thanking Mrs Castex for her excellent work.
Demographic change is a great challenge for Europe. A hundred years ago the population of Europe represented 15% of the world’s population. In 2050 it is likely to account for only 5%. Each woman in the European Union has, on average, 1.5 children, which is below the figure of 2.1 children required to sustain the population.
The situation is serious and is going to have negative consequences for the economy, social security systems and the very composition of society.
It is therefore necessary to take measures such as the ones recently adopted in Portugal with an investment of more than EUR 100 million to provide crèches and nursery schools throughout the country, going beyond the goals of the Lisbon Strategy. The granting of a pre-natal allowance to the most needy pregnant women, family allowances for immigrants’ children, extension of maternity leave, a 20% increase in family allowance for one-parent families, tax benefits for businesses which install or subsidise crèches for their employees, the setting up of a maternity benefit, public support for medically assisted procreation – are good examples for other countries to follow."@en1
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