The conference of the Universal Peace Federation, the demographic transition in the Balkans is discussed
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In the framework of the conference of the Universal Peace Federation, the "Demographic transition in the Western Balkans, the brain drain of young people and family issues" was also discussed.
The Deputy Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Daulina Osmani, said that the government has a special focus on supporting young people. She mentioned child allowances, scholarships and support for sports activities.
"Government support for young people starts at the moment of the birth of children through child allowances. Then it follows through numerous scholarships from the Ministry of Education, in addition the super-work platform enables young people to enter the labor market, but also to create professional experiences. As the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, we believe that our mission is to serve young people through art, sports and cultural heritage. This approach means that young people develop their talent in the sectors they want." she said.
Meanwhile, the project manager at UNODC, Viktoria Nesterovaite, expressed her concern about the flight of young people from the countries of the Western Balkans due to unemployment and corruption.
"More than 70 percent of young people in the Western Balkans leave the region and their main concern is that they are poor and unemployed, and there is a lot of corruption. Corruption affects everyone, so anti-corruption education is very important. The importance of education in the fight against corruption is also recognized within the UN convention," she said.
In this panel discussion was also the president of UBT, Edmond Hajrizi, who pointed out the decline in the birth rate in the six countries of the Western Balkans.
"We have population decline, each country is declining, each country in the Balkans has a declining birthrate. In each Balkan country we have migration... If we want to have economic growth, we must increase productivity with people or technology... migration 50-60 thousand migrations are happening with such movements every year and this is interesting", he said.
