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"We in the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance were not able to endorse Ms Westphal’s report on demographic change. It lags far behind the Castex report which was adopted by Parliament in 2008 and, as a result, will be a disappointment for many European citizens. Women, in particular, will find that the report contains very little for them, despite the fact that demographic change has a female face. In the majority of the Member States, it is women who have to choose between children and a career, who do the work of caring for family members which is generally unpaid and unrecognised, and who are therefore the largest group of people suffering from poverty in old age. The amendments which the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Quality and I, on behalf of the Group of the Greens, have submitted were an attempt to rectify this situation. However, the rapporteur rejected all these amendments and opted instead for a completely outdated picture of the family in which women, as in the past, are the unpaid care workers. The one-sided and restrictive approach to migration in the report also does not correspond with the position of the Greens.
We want to see a controlled but not restrictive immigration policy in Europe. In the paragraphs on urban development and regions with net emigration, our amendments form part of the compromises. This is why we have abstained from voting."@en1
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