Translation of "Total growth a population " (English → French) :

Considering this growth in population, and since the security of food supply is an increasing international problem, can the Commission provide information on its policies in the areas of research, science and technology that are designed to address the issue of the security of food supply?

It is telling enough that official population statistics for Ukraine put the population at well over 31 million in 1926, while in 1939, despite significant natural population growth, the population was only 28 million.

9. Notes the additional allocation of eligible areas for designation of Article 87 (3) (c) of the Treaty status according to the country ceilings determined by the Commission, which takes into account also variations in unemployment between the regions; as regards the total population ceiling, calls nonetheless on the Commission to adopt distribution criteria which take into consideration the relative disadvantage of certain Member States so as not to impose stiff penalties on the ones which still display significant and objective internal differences due in part to the existence of underdeveloped regions with Article 87 (3) (a) of the ...[+++]Treaty status; calls, therefore, for adoption of the same distribution criteria and the same correctives laid down in the current guidelines and for authorisation of the requisite modest increase in the total EU-25 population ceiling which is eligible for regional aid;

What is regrettable is that it will have taken eight years in order to realise that the rise in deficits did not come about solely on the basis of the disastrous and completely arbitrary figure of 3% of GDP, but also as a result of ‘relevant factors’: continually weak growth, ageing populations, the consequences of the botched enlargement of the EU or of unfettered globalisation, and so on. It was about time.

Furthermore, the most recent political processes in the European Union are demonstrating the extent to which this tragedy of the mass exodus of population leads to greater social and political upheaval, with the risk that this may lead to a growth in populism and the extreme right.

While unemployment in regions where rates were lowest (taking those accounting for 10% of total EU 15 population) averaged a mere 2.7% in 2000, it averaged 21.9% in those where rates were highest (including the French overseas departments).