The Commission for Social Policy, Education, Employment and Culture of the European Committee of the Regions has adopted the opinion on ‘The EU Response to the Demographic Challenge’extracted in this pages.
According to its rapporteur, Juan Vicente Herrera Campo (President of the Regional Government of Castille and Leon in Spain), “key competences in areas like, employment, participation in society and independent living that should be used to develop appropriate responses. He regrets that despite the potential for many European policies to contribute to tackling demographic challenges, they do not contain specific measures to assist affected areas, such as transport, information society, employment and social policy, environment and climate, business.”
