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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8187

8 April 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/population
Anna Diamantopoulou calls for well-managed EU integration policy to achieve effective labour market

Brussels, 08/04/2002 (Agence Europe) - Addressing the opening of the 2nd UN World Assembly on Ageing on 8 April (see EUROPE of 6 April, p.17), Social Affairs Commissioner Anna Diamantopoulou said that Europe was one of the regions of the world where the population is ageing and by 2050, one person in three will be over 60, and one in 10 over 80, the vast majority women. All of this, she noted, has major economic and social implications which have to be addressed. The problem of ageing was...

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