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"I voted in favour of the report. We usually refer to demographic change as a problem. However, the fact that people are living longer is obviously not a problem. The real problem is low birth rates. The cause, apart from the modern way of life, is the economic insecurity and fear that people feel about starting and maintaining a large family. How could they feel otherwise when more than one in three large families – 31.3% to be precise – in the European Union today face the risk of poverty and social exclusion. This, therefore, is the major challenge: to adjust the Cohesion Fund at EU level and operational programmes at national level to support families, to support large families, to promise that social cuts to large families will not be accepted. This pledge, this social contract with large families, is the best safety net for safeguarding social cohesion and for resolving the current demographic problem, and it is becoming even more important in countries such as Greece, where citizens are suffering unprecedented and drastic cuts to social benefits due to the economic crisis."@en1
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