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"Older people are a large and growing section of the Union’s population. As Europe’s populations become increasingly old, it is a huge challenge to ensure sustainable pensions given low birth rates, a shrinking workforce and a growing number of healthy and long-lived pensioners. Older people represent an enormous cultural, social and professional resource. Their ongoing contribution to society, often in an unpaid capacity, is too often overlooked, and their potential for wider involvement and contribution left untapped.
There is widespread fear that the older generation is becoming a heavy burden on younger and working-age people, and this could result in tensions between generations. A key opportunity for tackling the challenge of demographic ageing and preserving intergenerational solidarity consists, among others, in ensuring that people stay longer on the labour market and remain healthy, active and autonomous for longer after they retire. Solidarity between generations has long been high on the EU agenda, both in terms of policy making and of raising awareness."@en1
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