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Mr President, I should like to point out to you, to the Commission and Council representatives, and to all those present in the Chamber that Europe’s demographic situation will not improve unless politicians really take children’s interests to heart.
This can only really happen if children are granted political rights. I refer to voting rights for children, rights to be granted to children and entrusted to their legal guardians, namely their parents.
An attempt to do just this has already been made in the German Parliament, the
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debated a bill to grant voting rights to children from birth. The rights would be vested in the children’s parents and legal guardians. Of course, significant legal changes would be needed to bring this about, but it does seem that it would be more conducive to righting Europe’s demographic situation than the current legal arrangements.
Unfortunately, it was because of the changes that the bill was rejected during debate in the
even though it had the backing of many leading politicians and the support of the committee in which it had been discussed. I just wished to point this out."@en1
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