"The trend towards the Italian birth rate decline is serious. Our Government, for the first time, has established mandates for the birth rate, and has attributed them to the Ministry of Equal Opportunities and Family - said
Minister Eugenia Roccella
at the
conference on the birth rate decline taking place in Rome
-. But the inattention to the issue has lasted too many years not to leave consequences that will require a long period of time to stop and then reverse the trend. The decline in women of childbearing age is now too pronounced for birth rate measures to have the same effect they would have had when the number of young women was still significant".
"A great incentive for investment in birth rate policies can come from the European Union. Italy intends to bring the topic of demography to the new Commission and the new European Parliament as a priority for the next five years." While "our effort to reach the objective, what we could define as the Italian way to birthrates, is based" on "economic support, conciliation, work", the minister announced at the conference
'For a young Europe. Demographic transition, environment, future"
. "As already done on the green and digital transition, investment in the demographic transition, i.e. in the transition from a harsh winter to an at least timid spring of new births - he underlined - also passes through audacity and the sense of Europe's future". For Roccella what is needed is "public and private investment, a collective mobilization that passes from business to services, from administration to finance, from the smallest local authority to the European Commission, and also involves the communication". At the same time, according to the minister, "work is needed with local authorities, regions and municipalities, to relaunch family-friendly services in the area".
Mattarella: 'Helping young couples, the Charter asks for it'
"The future of the country is measured on the ability to provide answers to the young generations. The institutions need to become aware of this, to implement active policies that allow young couples to realize their life project, overcoming material and access difficulties to the services that make the path of parenthood difficult". Thus
Sergio Mattarella
, in the message to the Minister for the Family Eugenia Maria Roccella on the occasion of the conference "
For a young Europe: demographic transition, environment, future
". "It's about implementing the constitutional provisions", he adds.
"The demographic issue challenges developed countries in particular - underlines the head of state - influencing the various aspects of the social structure. Italy is no exception. The excellent results obtained in terms of protecting the condition of the elderly, the new highly single-family dynamics , the decline in births, require reflection in order to satisfy the new emerging needs, to guarantee the necessary social cohesion". "It is a question - highlights Mattarella - of implementing the constitutional provision which, in art. 31, calls on the Republic to facilitate "with economic measures and other provisions the formation of the family and the fulfillment of related tasks, with particular regard to families numerous". Protecting "maternity, childhood and youth, encouraging the institutions necessary for this purpose".
"Appropriate housing, fiscal and social policies, conciliation of the balance between life and work, equal opportunities, are fundamental issues. The transformations of demography have a strong impact on the territorial structure of the country and on the sustainability of inhabited centres, in particular in mountainous, inland areas , rural, worsening the crisis and not allowing the objective of equality of citizens to be achieved.
The abnormal growth of metropolitan areas with the consequent diseconomies and inconveniences, once based on the concentration of employment and the availability of services, must give way to an integrated approach that includes interventions to promote local economic development, investing in community services. territory to support the vitality of our communities. I wish all the participants of the event the best wishes for success in their work", he concludes.
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