On Wednesday 7 July, the European Parliament adopted - with a comfortable majority (479 votes in favour, 103 against and 113 abstentions) - a largely amended version of the report by Polish MEP Beata Szydło (ECR), detailing a series of recommendations for tackling the ageing of the EU’s population (see EUROPE B12755A16).
New features in the final version include a provision calling on states to “use EU funds and private investments, combined with national and local investments, to...