A better work/family life balance in the EU

To balance work and family life better, the European Social Model needs to be modernized and the EU's economy needs to pick up. Europe's demographic changes means it needs more children, a higher percentage of working women and care for the increasing number of elderly. The EU can tackle this 'magic triangle' if everyone helps share the burden, through new ways of balancing work/family life. But failure to do so would directly hit Europe's future economic growth, as well as putting a potentially unbearable burden on women's shoulders. President Barroso and Commissioner pidla will be talking about possible new ways at the Brussels conference 'Confronting demographic changes: a new solidarity between generations', which started today.