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"The difficulty is not knowing whether, and to what extent, EU regional policy should take account of the extremely worrying demographic changes taking place in Member States and some of their regions, but how to avert the impending demographic disaster. Nothing in this report actually focuses on resolving the problem of ageing in our continent and of economic and social decline, as well as demographic decline, in many regions, not just isolated rural areas. Clearly, it is not for this policy of patronage and financial tinkering, which you call ‘cohesion policy’, to tackle these problems, which depend on proactive national birth policies. However, neither should this policy make pronouncements on encouraging immigration from outside Europe as a solution to replacing indigenous populations. Amidst all the confusion and immigrationist militancy, the few sensible considerations contained in this report could not deflect the inevitable negative vote."@en1
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