REPORT with recommendations to the Commission on just transition directive in the world of work: ensuring the creation of jobs and revitalising local economies

Tabled by Séverine Werbrouck, Marie Dauchy, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Nikola Bartůšek, Pál Szekeres, Mélanie Disdier

Added: 10a. Stresses that, in the face of the structural decline in the working-age population in the Member States, only a proactive birth-rate policy at Member State level, supported by Union institutions, can provide a long-term solution to this vital challenge to the economic and social model of the Member States; further underlines that under no circumstances does the replacement of European workers with jobseekers from third countries constitute a sustainable solution, and that such immigration entails other currently underestimated risks, notably in terms of security and social cohesion; insists on the need to better assess the long-term consequences of the decline in the working-age population for the economic and social model of the Member States and invites the Member States to prioritise its statistical monitoring and the sharing of the resulting data;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE782.004