Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-11-Speech-4-045"

Predicate	Value (sorted: default)
rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-04-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Second United Nations World Assembly on Ageing (Madrid, 8-12 April 2002)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020411.3.4-045"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-04-11-Speech-4-0462
lpv:speaker	lp:Mario Mantovani2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Forza Italia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-07--2004-07-19)3 member; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the World Assembly on Ageing organised by the Spanish Presidency, which is taking place 20 years on from the first conference on the subject, is certainly a unique opportunity for the entire world, not just the developed countries, to be able to focus on the extremely important and no less topical subject of the ageing population, which is the result of the new demographic trend, and the increase in average life expectancy, which is due, not least, to the progress made in medical science. I hope that, when the economic, social and health consequences of the increase in average life expectancy and the ageing population are discussed and analysed, the emphasis will not just be on the role that elderly people must be able to play in modern society today but also on the right, for example, of each elderly person who loses their independence to continue to enjoy a guaranteed quality of life. We need all the States of the European Union to focus once again, more intently, on promoting the active involvement of elderly people in social and cultural life. Indeed, it would be very valuable for our society to aim at adopting that approach, for it must treat the elderly person not just as a potential user of services but as a person who is still useful to society as a whole too. I warmly welcome the new Community programme that the Commission is preparing to launch in the second half of the year – not least because the Commission has not done a great deal on this matter thus far – in an attempt to remedy a situation which the Commission itself has described as disturbing in terms of the preservation of the quality of life of elderly people. In other words, there needs to be an effective, coordinated action at European level if we are to address the issue of ageing, which is both a challenge and, at the same time, an emergency, a burden on the future of all the European States, particularly my country, Italy, where Genoa holds the record for the city with the greatest proportion of elderly people in the entire Union."@en1

Named graphs describing this resource:

The resource appears as object in 2 triples

Context graph