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Working visit to Berlin and Demography Forum
On the evening of 18 March, at the residence of Ambassador Tim Guldimann, Alain Berset meets a delegation of federal parliamentarians from the Bavarian CSU: implementation of the initiative against mass immigration, health, social affairs.
On the 19th, he speaks at the fourth Berlin Demography Forum (“Activity – Health – Participation”), after Health Minister Hermann Gröhe: “Population ageing makes it necessary to involve as many people as possible in economic life.” For him, social inclusion is a condition for democracy to function properly.
With Hermann Gröhe: dementia, access to high-quality basic medicine, medicine prices, antibiotic resistance, WHO reform. With Andrea Nahles, Minister of Labour: the reform of retirement provision and a more flexible retirement age.
Wednesday 18 March 2015 — Berlin
- Dinner debate with CSU federal parliamentarians at the residence of the Swiss Ambassador
Thursday 19 March 2015 — Berlin
- Berlin Demography Forum, ESMT: speech by Alain Berset
- Courtesy visit to the Bundestag Health Committee
- Working lunch with Hermann Gröhe, Federal Minister of Health, and joint press briefing
- Meeting with Andrea Nahles, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
Speeches on this site
- Forum de Berlin sur la démographie : « Le changement démographique, une chance pour la démocratie » (in German, French-language page)
- Discours de table au dîner offert par le ministre allemand de la santé Hermann Gröhe (in German, French-language page)
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