presented in the past four years multiple entry-points for the European Commission to promote initiatives such It draws from the three workshops organised in the as: the care strategy, the child guarantee and lastly the fall 2023 by the Egmont Institute on the impacts of an demography toolbox. [...] The final workshop delved into the historical overview of The increase of life expectancy, and most interestingly population changes, placing the European context into the improvement of the health and cognition the rest of the world’s. [...] A theme that often resurfaces within the conversations on solutions to address working force shrinkage, shortages The total of the population in the EU will not undergo in the care sector and local accessibility to basic services, a striking variation at national level, the change will was that of technology and its potential to support mostly impact the lower levels. [...] However, whether and local development and engender a vicious cycle in these will be the trump card for the EU to continue to be terms of economic consequences: shrinking workforce a competitive market and to fulfil all the most essential and fewer opportunities in remote areas often result in needs of the citizens at the level of the services and the more outmigration and brain drain, which resul. [...] Fast forward to June 2023, the European Council invited the Commission to present a toolbox to address ‘demographic challenges and notably their impact on Europe’s competitive edge’.19 The same European Council of June 2023 asked for an independent High-Level report looking at the future of the Single Market, to be presented in March 2024 under the aegis of the Belgian Presidency.
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