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To: hobo who wrote (1817)	1/20/2001 12:57:44 PM
From: hobo	Respond to of 82486

an interesting "home site" for: "Europe Reinvented" specials.ft.com from that site, this page: (Demographics) specials.ft.com Demography is destiny for the old world By Deborah Hargreaves in Brussels Published: January 15 2001 17:31GMT \| Last Updated: January 19 2001 11:56GMT The European Union is taking the first tentative steps towards a common immigration policy. Many EU leaders have recognised that the "zero immigration" stance of the past 30 years is no longer appropriate as the EU working population declines. But finding agreement for a new approach to immigration involves taking tough political decisions and showing true leadership skills to convince the public that such a step is necessary. In a recent speech, Antonio Vitorino, the EU's justice and home affairs commissioner, said: "I believe we should review the longer term [labour] needs for the EU as a whole, estimating how far these can be met from existing resources." He also called for the definition of a policy "for the admission of third country nationals to meet whatever shortage remains". The European Commission estimates that the EU working population will start to fall in the next 10 years and decline to 223m people by 2025 from 225m in 1995. During the same period, the number of over-65s will continue to rise to reach 22 per cent of the population by 2025 from 15 per cent in 1995. The problems of an ageing population, with not enough workers to pay for retired people's pensions, have led many EU leaders to consider relaxing immigration rules. ____________________________________ an interesting parallel perhaps between... Europe/Africa/Asia and then... The USA and Latin America re: immigration ? increasingly, the case for "isolation" (of a particular country), becomes more difficult. given: 1. commucications speed, 2. ability to move financial resources from one economy to the next. 3. ability of labor to work over the internet (in some sectors) 4. demographics. (i.e. slower growth in industrialized nations, fast growth in 3rd world countries.) based on the above, and knowing that "communist/socialist" policies have not work and the increasing widening of wealth between "skilled and educated" labor against "unskilled labor", logic would call for a "truce" between the extremes. attempt to find a middle ground solution while still striving to find the "perfect system", (whatever that may be). is that possible ? or we will continue with our history of continued wars, exploitation, senseless "revolutions" etc etc etc ... ?