EUROPE - Family Policy Institute urges Europe's political leaders to stop talking and take action to support families and to make the family a priority issue in their respective countries

Monday, 24 September 2007

Brussels (Agenzia Fides) - "It is an urgent priority for European countries to incorporate the family perspective in public policies as a social good which cannot be renounced and as a service to the nation " said Lola Velarde, president of the European network of the Institute of Family Policies, in the opening address at the annual meeting of the European Christian Policy Movement ECPM held 21 and 22 September in Brussels.
Lola Velarde says politicians and administration "must pass from merely theoretic support for families to active commitment to develop public policies in the perspective of the family in their respective countries ". She called for greater efforts to make the family a political priority; to put the family on their political agendas; to make known their support for the family with statements, posters, proposals and finally, the development of public policies in the perspective of the family through the creation of bodies and development of plans and laws.
ECPM is a political association of Christian democratic parties and organisations active in various European political sectors, governments of the member nations and European institutions. The goal of ECPM is to reflect and act explicitly in European politics from a Christian-social vision. The theme of the congress this year is “Putting the family at the centre. A Christian democratic vision of family policies in Europe". Among the themes for reflection: conciliation between family and working life, the limits of government intervention for the family, the consequences of the lack of a family policy and in particular in eastern Europe. During the Congress the IPF presented its report on the Evolution of the Family in Europe 2007. (RG) (Agenzia Fides 24/9/2007; righe 22, parole 284)


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