Post by rex362 on May 15, 2013 8:23:13 GMT -5
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SEE HOW BIASED THESE MAC SLAVS ARE TO ALBANIANS AND OTHER'S BCS THIS ARTICLE PERTAINS TO MAC SLAVS ONLY AND IS TOTALLY IGNORING MAC ALBANIANS AND OTHER ETHNICITY"S WITHIN MACEDONIAN BCS THEY DONT HAVE THIS PROBLEM ......ACTUALLY THE BIRTHRATE IS FINE AS A WHOLE .....ITS THE SLAVIC BIRTHRATE THAT IS DOWN ALL OTHERS IS UP .....MACEDONIAN SLAVS DISREGARDS ALL OTHERS AS CITIZENS / 48% / THIS IS WHY WE WAR
SEE HOW BIASED THESE MAC SLAVS ARE TO ALBANIANS AND OTHER'S BCS THIS ARTICLE PERTAINS TO MAC SLAVS ONLY AND IS TOTALLY IGNORING MAC ALBANIANS AND OTHER ETHNICITY"S WITHIN MACEDONIAN BCS THEY DONT HAVE THIS PROBLEM ......ACTUALLY THE BIRTHRATE IS FINE AS A WHOLE .....ITS THE SLAVIC BIRTHRATE THAT IS DOWN ALL OTHERS IS UP .....MACEDONIAN SLAVS DISREGARDS ALL OTHERS AS CITIZENS / 48% / THIS IS WHY WE WAR
Macedonia Mulls Ways to Tackle Baby Shortage
Macedonia plans fresh measures to boost population
growth amid growing official panic over falling birthrate and rising
number of pensioners.
Amid talk of*growing demographic crisis in the country, Macedonia's
Social Affairs Minister, Spiro Ristovski, says the government is
working on a new set of measures to combat what he calls the
“demographic recession”.
“We are talking about a range of
measures and activities in the education system, migration and
infrastructure policies, economic development and the fight against
poverty and social exclusion” Ristovski said.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski dedicated an entire speech to what he called the demographic crisis in Macedonia.
Referring to the tumbling birth rate and rising number of old people,
the premier said that demographic changes posed a greater existential
threat than the global economic crisis.
He noted that the current
fertility rate of 1.4 children per mother was far below the minimum of
2.1 needed to maintain the population.
He also noted that only 22,000 children were born in 2011, as opposed to 40,000 in 1980, a drop of almost 50 per cent.
Gruevski said the population was also rapidly aging, with a ratio of
employed people to pensioners of 1.7 to 1, as opposed to almost 5 to 1
in 1980.
“The trend is obvious” and “we have to fight it united”, Gruevski said.
While
the basic facts of the demographic crisis are indisputable, the Prime
Minister's socially conservative agenda has angered human rights
activists, who fear he is using the problem to attack women's rights and
the rights of sexual minorities.
“We are now debating perverted
values, same-sex marriages or even adoption of children in those
marriages, some kind of women’s rights, or men’s rights… and while
spending energy on these issues, as a state we are running out of
people,” the Prime Minister said.
The former head of the
Macedonian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights, Mirjana Najcevska, urged
the state commission against discrimination and the ombudsman’s office
to take action against Gruevski for his words.
The Prime
Minister's speech “discriminated not only against women and but also
against groups with different sexual orientations,” she said.
In
2009, the Gruevski government launched an attempt to boost population
growth only to cross swords with the Constitutional Court.
In
April that year the Court scrapped a provision in the child protection
law that allowed cash bonuses to mothers with more than one child on the
grounds that it was discriminatory.
This is because it envisaged state help only for mothers living in mainly ethnic Macedonian areas with a low average birth rate.