Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-07-07-Speech-4-187-000"
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"en.20110707.17.4-187-000"2
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"− I welcome this report to designate 2012 as European Year for Active Ageing. Population ageing is one of the EU’s most important challenges but also one of the biggest opportunities. The rise in life expectancy linked to ageing is certainly an extraordinary social achievement and a success of our time. Europeans today are living longer and healthier lives than ever before, which is a positive and encouraging development. However, this success also confronts European society with a number of challenges, in particular in the area of employment and social protection. To illustrate this, Eurostat’s demographic projections expect a decrease of about 6.8% (20.8 million) in people of working age in 2030. Thus, only two people of working age (15-64) will have to support one retired person (over 65), compared to a ratio of four to one today. The EU will therefore experience a steep increase in the share of older people and a large decline in the share of population aged below 50, which may, in turn, increase pressure on public budgets and pension systems, as well as on the social and care provision for older people. In addition, old age is often associated with illness and dependency."@en1
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