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"The economic and social impacts of demographic change are one of the key factors that must be reckoned with regarding the future prosperity of Europe and the fulfilment of justice, human rights and freedom. Marginalisation and demographic dynamics often go hand in hand, as can most conspicuously be seen in the case of the Roma. Not only are they the continent’s far youngest minority with the lowest socio-economic status, but their communities can be characterised by reversed demographic trends compared to the majority population. Hence, in most new Member States, while there is a rapid ageing of the majority population, the proportion of Roma is quickly increasing within the active age cohort, which carries the social security system on its shoulders.
As a demographic gap opens up, so it is usually followed by the exacerbation of intra-regional disparities, further polarising those micro-regions that are peripheral and declining and those that are dynamic and developing. The fact that there are areas which are lagging behind may hamper general social development and threaten to disrupt cohesion – not only in territorial terms, but also in social terms. Their specific needs must therefore be targeted through an equivalent, complex and intensive programme based on a pan-European crisis map."@en1
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