C 15/136
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
12.1.2022
Thursday 20 May 2021
education to employment; considers, moreover, the promotion of pan-European ‘diaspora strategies’ aimed at encouraging return processes for those who had left for a more attractive region, with a focus on higher education students in agriculture and rural economics who should be incentivised to go back to their region after graduation with a view to contributing to the economic viability of their respective sending regions; 54.
Calls on the Commission to ensure that the initiative on the long-term vision for rural areas includes practical solutions and means of support to address peripheries and demographic changes; believes that this long-term vision for rural areas should develop into a true European rural agenda, with tangible and concrete objectives, and the involvement of all relevant regional and local actors, both in its architecture and its implementation; believes, furthermore, that it should include a gender mainstreaming strategy accompanied by impact assessment tools; invites the Commission, in agreement with the Member States and local and regional authorities, to propose a new deal on demographics in the EU as a multi-level policy approach which would lead to a European strategy on demographic trends; believes that demographic issues, including depopulation and ageing, should be among the issues addressed during the Conference on the Future of Europe; o o
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Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the national and regional parliaments of the Member States.