L’évolution démographique en Europe: une panoplie d’instruments d’action
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- Emploi et politique social
- Évolution démographique
- Politique de cohésion
- Cohésion territoriale
Opinion number:
CDR-1173-2024
Status:
Adoptés
Objective
To examine the European Commission's communication on "demographic change: a toolbox for action" from a local and regional perspective;
To make proposals on how to maximise the efficiency of regions and cities in the implementation of the demography toolbox.
To make proposals on how to maximise the efficiency of regions and cities in the implementation of the demography toolbox.
Impact
Economic and Social Committee's opinion on "The impact of demography on Social Europe", makes a reference to the opinion (point 4.1).
Participation of the rapporteur to the HU Presidency’s event: Informal meeting of ministers responsible for demography, Budapest, 18-19 November 2024.
Hungarian Presidency's "Council Conclusions on ensuring work-life balance and gender equality for all generations in the context of demographic challenges", makes reference to the opinion, focusing on its positions on work-life balance and intergenerational solidarity (point 15).
The rapporteur was invited to the Opening Event of the European Parliament's Intergroup on Demography (20 March 2025) to learn about the objectives and planned activities of the Intergroup, as well as to discuss key demographic challenges.
In the European Commission's follow-up report on the adopted CoR opinions, it is stated that the Commission shares the commitment to a strengthened cohesion and growth policy with regions at the centre in order to address regional and social disparities and ensure all citizens have an effective right to stay in the place they call home; it is also stated that the Commission will continue mainstreaming demographic considerations across the relevant portfolios through the Commissioner for the Mediterranean; the revision of the Work Life Balance Directive will provide an opportunity to assess whether the rules still fit the evolving working practices; and that the Commission will strengthen its monitoring and data collecting services through JRC's Knowledge Centre for Migration and Demography (KMCD).
Participation of the rapporteur to the HU Presidency’s event: Informal meeting of ministers responsible for demography, Budapest, 18-19 November 2024.
Hungarian Presidency's "Council Conclusions on ensuring work-life balance and gender equality for all generations in the context of demographic challenges", makes reference to the opinion, focusing on its positions on work-life balance and intergenerational solidarity (point 15).
The rapporteur was invited to the Opening Event of the European Parliament's Intergroup on Demography (20 March 2025) to learn about the objectives and planned activities of the Intergroup, as well as to discuss key demographic challenges.
In the European Commission's follow-up report on the adopted CoR opinions, it is stated that the Commission shares the commitment to a strengthened cohesion and growth policy with regions at the centre in order to address regional and social disparities and ensure all citizens have an effective right to stay in the place they call home; it is also stated that the Commission will continue mainstreaming demographic considerations across the relevant portfolios through the Commissioner for the Mediterranean; the revision of the Work Life Balance Directive will provide an opportunity to assess whether the rules still fit the evolving working practices; and that the Commission will strengthen its monitoring and data collecting services through JRC's Knowledge Centre for Migration and Demography (KMCD).
Essential points
THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS (CoR)
- considers it timely to mainstream demographic change as a transversal challenge into the work of all commissions, and consider the possibility of establishing an interregional group closely cooperating with the European Parliament’s relevant intergroup, encouraging the exchange of best practices, and the development of coordinated strategies that take into account a broad spectrum of EU policies, including gender equality;
- emphasises that the Demography Toolbox introduces key elements explaining the gap between actual and desired family size;
- stresses the importance of the existing EU cohesion funding tools which can help alleviate the negative effects of demographic change, either as a result of depopulation or overpopulation in regions with strong population pressure, and welcomes the focus of the presidency of the Council of the EU on demographic issues and its close link with cohesion policies; refers in this context to the CoR work on how to exploit the full potential of cohesion policy to tackle demographic change; underlines that these tools should promote a balanced and enabling approach to demographic issues at an appropriate territorial level;
- calls on the Member States to consider the establishment of a Permanent Council configuration comprising a group of ministers in charge of demography from the Member States. Such a Council configuration should keep in mind gender equality and the intergenerational dimension, while developing mechanisms for sharing good practices at European level on their national policies to support parents, families, young and elderly women and men and respecting national competences.