Feb 7, 2014:

Active Retirement Ireland European Election 2014 Campaign of Action

AGE Platform Europe's Manifesto for the 2014 elections is about making pledges that will challenge entrenched prejudices faced by older people, who make an incredibly valuable contribution to our society.

Active Retirement Ireland strongly supports the message of the AGE manifesto about "creating an Age-Friendly European Union". It is absolutely necessary that the generation of older people has its say in all questions that regard them and directly affect their quality of live and their social status.

Active Senior Citizens for Europe Project

The project aims to bring the European Union (EU) closer to senior citizens in 8 EU countries. In these countries although older citizens usually have a positive attitude toward the EU, few are fully aware of what the EU is doing to translate our shared values into concrete outcomes for EU citizens, what are EU competences and how EU policies impact their daily life. The current crisis and language barriers create additional challenges for seniors in these countries to become fully involved in EU civil discussion.

The project aims to equip groups of older people with the necessary tools and training to share & circulate relevant information about the EU to wider groups of seniors at local regional & national level. It is hoped that this will help them develop a stronger sense of belonging to the EU. Part of the activities will focus on the European Elections and how senior citizens can influence parties' priorities based on the needs, concerns & rights of older people.

The project will be holding Information Sessions in your region in March-May 2014. Details of these sessions will be posted on our website.

AGE Manifesto

We call on the candidate MEPs to look to creating an Age-Friendly European Union through ensuring that EU policies and initiatives will:

1. Promote equal opportunities and the realisation of human rights for all
2. Guarantee adequacy, fairness and sustainability of Europe's social protection and social inclusion systems
3. Ensure universal access to goods and services, in particular to the built environment, ICT, mobility and public services
4. Support the right to grow and age in good mental and physical health
5. Create age-friendly labour markets and economy
6. Involve older persons in all policy and research processes that concern them
7. Protect older persons' right to live and die in dignity

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