Brussels, 13/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - At the end of the conference on demographic change on 11-12 July in Brussels, on the initiative of Commissioner Vladimir Spidla (EUROPE 8984, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso explained that “In 1940 André Maurois wrote that getting old was nothing more than a bad habit. Society's challenge is to both accept this bad habit and see how it can be adapted to remain active and in good health”. Barroso added that this...