Thematic event for Demography was held by PASOK Change Motor Wednesday afternoon at Zappeion As part of the events for the celebration of the 51st anniversary by its founding declaration PASOK.

At the event, co-ordinated by Efi Bekou, Secretary of Welfare, Social Cohesion and Family of PASOK-Machine Change, speakers were: Tasos Giannitsis, former Minister, Byron Kotzamanis, Director of Research Research Institute of Research. Demography- Main Researcher EKKE, Fai Makantasis, Director of Research of DINOSIS and Katerina Kazani, Evia MP and Head of KTE Social cohesion and family.

In his speech, entitled “Political Overcomes against National-Executor Threat” Tasos Giannitsis He pointed out that “demographic, aging and shrinking workforce, show a society and a political system with strong symptoms of inactivity and complacency, which is unable to prevent or mitigate such a strong danger and its consequences.”

He added, stating that “slowly, but steadily, we are slipping into conditions that problematic in a problematic way of all our major national developments, and that in order to overthrow, a general social and political alert needs.”

He mentioned, always talking about the aforementioned slide, in the catalytic role played by the 2009 financial crisis and focused, in particular, on “political negativity, to determine and serve a grid of great goals, which will inspire serious interventions, and will promptly.”

“Such a goal may not be whether budget surpluses will be 1.8% or 2.3% of GDP“He said.

T. Giannitsis said that the problem of aging population is directly linked to the following seven, major problems, without the treatment of which, each political intervention will have very limited results:

(a) the infertility.

b) The low political priority in tackling young people’s problems.

(c) Opportunities of Greek resources under 40 to find work abroad, combined with the unjustifiably low wage pay and housing problems of young workers.

d) a general corruption in the way society and politics function.

(e) The obsessive and myopic non-adhering to the migration issue in the country.

(f) The generalized low productivity of our productive system.

(g) the ineffectiveness, the alien approaches of politics and the indifference of the various forms of power for the problem: state power, the power of the media, and even the power of society.

Submitting some quantitative and qualitative characteristics, T. Giannitsis pointed out that “Greece is now losing in all fields of demographic”, while “moreover, today, Greece is facing geopolitical problems in its region.”

“These findings emphasize the need for transcendent mobilization and hierarchies,” he said, stressing, among other things, that “in the end, the demographic policy is not only a function of some forms of money spending, but of political capacity and willing to create a total of a whole, society. “

“Therefore, in addition to changing allowances and taxes for the 30th time, we need to make changes to the very reality that frustrates the world and which is increasingly around us and not only affects the demographic,” noted Giannitsis and concluded:

“Today’s event, on such a symbolic date, I understand that it wants to give the message that for PASOK the demographic is a national priority, not in the usual sense of the term. Let not the period of the crisis we went through as the beginning of the decline of our country. Let this event be done, the starting point for a “leap towards tomorrow”, which will concern not only PASOK but also the whole of our political system. “

In his speech entitled “Greece: Demographic Developments, Challenges and Politics on the Horizon of 2060” Byron Kotzamanis noted, among other things, that “the birth-of-death scales cannot be positive for the next 50 years, but it can be less negative”.

V. Kotzamanis emphasized the need to alleviate inequalities within the country, taking public health measures as well as family and child support measures.

As he said, “to exclude the benefit policy and to take health and education measures”, while referring to “a positive immigration balance with the return of young people who have left our country and a reasoned influx of foreigners who need to be incorporated into our country. Overall, we want about 1.5 million in the next 35 years. “

In his speech entitled “Regional Differences of Demographic Change in Greece”, Paul Baltas pointed out that the measures taken and the policies that will be implemented “cannot be horizontal at the regional level” but “depending on the needs of each area”.

He has been in favor of the “Renaissance Renaissance” effort as well as the measures that “will reverses the birthplace and help to adapt to reality”.

In her speech under the title “Harmonization of Family and Work Life as a factor in dealing with the demographic issue”, Fai Makandassis referred, inter alia, to the two proposals related to the address of the issue a) “End of Matternalism” which means that the man is more active in Parental licenses.

F.

“The demographic is treated,” he said, concluding.

In her speech under the heading “Greece cannot continue to lose population and grow older” Katerina Kazani stressed that “demographic is today’s greatest challenge. And it concerns all of us. “

He referred to the “gap” between “I want to have kids” and “I can”, noting that “this is created by the conditions of life, the cost of housing, the jobs without perspective, the precision, the fear that” if I miss the child, I will stay back at work “.

He also pointed out that “the demographic beats the Greek region more strongly”.

Referring to government policy, he said that “the Region cannot be kept alive with temporary bonuses. It is being held with real infrastructure, services and motivation for young people to stay, “adding that the government has not presented a national plan for demographic only” fragmentary measures, rough legislation and communication policies “.

Mrs Kazani referred to a series of problems faced by citizens and noted that “the Mitsotakis government, instead of giving answers, works with arrogance. With scandals, with espionage, with tooling of institutions. The state acts as a loot for “days”, not as a citizen support. This is not political. It’s a dead end. “

“For PASOK, demographic is not a theoretical debate on the future. It is the most direct and pressing issue in the present.

“And yet, this finding remains in the” drawer “,” he noted.

Finally, Mrs Kazani said that the PASOK program for the demographic has a “holistic, realistic and applicable” approach.

Finally, discussion coordinator Efi Beku, emphasized that “demographic is not a matter of numbers or statistics, but it is an issue of a new productive model of the country and a new socio -economic reality that touches on issues of governance, equality and justice.”