Rural areas – a space forgotten by Europe

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Published Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 11:51
by negrescuvictor (2983 views and 0 comments)

I have participated in a lot of debates regarding Europe but unfortunately everyone is tending to forget the rural and small cities communities. We often talk about agriculture but we don't discuss enough the problems of peple living there.

In Romania around 40% of the population lives in rural areas and in countries like Poland or Bulgaria the percentage is similar.

PES activists Romania organised an internal debate on this and we have identified some of their problems:

- difficulties regarding the access to high level education

- exclusion from technological evolution

- development problems / sanitary access

- lack of jobs (others than in agriculture)

But there is more. The rural areas tend to be ignored by Europe and due to that people is abandoning those zones.

Should we do something against this and support those living there? I think we should. What about you ?

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