The European Union (EU) currently has to cope with demographic decline, low natural growth and the ageing of part of its population. To respond to this challenge, the Commission sets out a number of recommendations drawing mainly on the renewed Lisbon strategy to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by longer lives, whilst also sparking off demographic renewal.

Recoge: 1. Europe's demographic future - 2. The demographic future of Europe, from challenge to opportunity - 3. Green paper "Confronting demographic change: a new solidarity between the generations."

The demographic transition is the third transition shaping the future of Europe after the green and digital transitions. In the coming years, the European Union (EU) will have to address the impacts of ageing, demographic decline and labour market shortages. It needs an efficient migration management system. The EU's capacity to provide opportunities for all segments of society, from children and young people to the elderly and other vulnerable groups such as migrants, will be fundamental for promoting positive change. To do this, population dynamics, demographic change and migration need to be better understood.

Presents information about fertility, mortality and migration, in Europe, to show possible future developments in population age structures and sizes.

Even as the 2013-2017 “migration crisis” is increasingly in the past, EU countries still struggle to come up with alternative solutions to foster safe, orderly, and regular migration pathways, Europeans continue to look in the rear-view mirror.This Report is an attempt to reverse the perspective, by taking a glimpse into the future of migration to Europe. What are the structural trends underlying migration flows to Europe, and how are they going to change over the next two decades? How does migration interact with specific policy fields, such as development, border management, and integration? And what are the policies and best practicies to manage migration in a more coherent and evidence-based way?

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Politik - Thema: Europäische Union, Note: 2,0, Universität Wien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This paper is questioning, if the basic motivation of the EU policy-making within the EU-Employment and Social Policy, as a answer to the demographic aging of the next decades, is based on a market logic. The demographic aging of the next decades will have a fundamental impact on the societies of the European Union. The EU-Commission as well as the Council of the European Union and the European Council identified two fundamental threats for the common market and the monetary union owed by demographic aging: First,the decrease of the average annual GDP between 2030 and 2050 owed by fewer people in work. Second, the threat for the common monetary and economic union by the higher burden of the national social security systems by an overaged population. The paper embeds this question in a theoretical framework by analyzing the emerging of the open method of coordination as a result of divergences between intergouvernemental and supranational forces.