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Untermenü:

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• HLG Gender Mainstreaming
• Informal Meeting of the Employment and Social Ministers
• Demographic Challenges
• Workshop on alternative dispute Resolution
• Effective Legal Redress
• Board Meeting of the European Disability Forum
• European Consumer Day
• Informal Meeting of Youth Ministers and Youth Event
• Informal Meeting SPC
• Social Services
• L'Europe de l'Enfance
• Fifth Meeting of People Experiencing Poverty
• MISSOC-Meeting
• Conference Ageing and Disability
• eInclusion
• European Social Services Conference
• Meeting General Directors Youth
• Informal Meeting CWG Youth

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Conference on "Demographic Challenges – Family needs Partnership" – co-financed by the European Commission,
Vienna, 2 – 4 February 2006

This conference is already finished. Press releases and other related documents are available at the end of this website.

Europe today is experiencing demographic changes to an extent and with consequences which are without comparison. In 2003, the natural growth in population in Europe was only 0.04% per annum. The fertility index lies below the threshold necessary for the renewal of a generation (2.1 children per woman), and in many Member States it has even fallen below 1.5 children per woman.

With the help of the Green Paper, "Confronting Demographic Change: a new Solidarity between the Generations" and the high-ranking Conference on demographic change on 11 and 12 July 2005, the European Commission has initiated an EU-wide discussion in order to counter the consequences of demographic change as well as to initiate the necessary measures for reform. Family policy as well as the measures for better compatibility of family and professional duties hold a key function in this respect.

Under the Austrian Presidency, the discussion continues with a high-ranking Conference on demography and family policy, and with the support of the European Commission. The Conference is supposed to shed some light on the relationships between family and professional environments as well as on the inner family partnership. The aspect of mobility and its consequences on family life are to be considered more closely. The Conference is supposed to bring together major players in this area as well as to promote the transfer of expertise between the Member States.

 

Downloads:

• conference_programme.pdf (312 KB)
  Official Programme and Organisational Details
• background_paper.pdf (319 KB)
  Background Information on Demographic Challenges
• abstracts_presentations.pdf (859 KB)
  Abstracts of the presentations
• key_messages_demographic_challenges.pdf (121 KB)
  Information of the Presidency on the conference on demographic challenges for the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council on 10 March 2006.

List of Articles for selected Topic

• Conference on demographic challenges - Haubner: Focus on the value of children and families in Europe
• Conference on demographic challenges - Haubner: Reducing barriers to compatibility of family and working life
• Opening address by Social Affairs Minister Haubner at the conference "Demographic Challenges – Family needs Partnership"
• Announcement: Demographic Challenges - Family needs Partnership

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