Europe should focus more on family-friendly policies to tackle the demographic crisis but should not take power from national governments in this area, German family minister Ursula von der Leyen, the initiator of the European Alliance for Families, has said.
Mrs von der Leyen, herself a mother of seven children, wants the newly emerging alliance - officially recognised by the member states in their March summit conclusions - to provide a platform for exchanging views rather than as som...
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