National and regional authorities responsible for protecting the Atlantic coastline and the people who live there should consider projects for testing readiness under the EU's territorial cooperation programme and take active engagement in the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.

49. Calls on the governments of Member States to promote a responsible balanced debate, based on accurate, independently researched information on the levels of migration, the positive economic and social contribution of migrants as well as costs and on the way that migration can be one of many solutions to the demographic trends of the EU's declining working age population, a debate involving political leaders, the media, social par ...[+++]tners and civil society;

49. Calls on the governments of Member States to promote a responsible balanced debate, based on accurate, independently researched information on the levels of migration, the positive economic and social contribution of migrants as well as costs and on the way that migration can be one of many solutions to the demographic trends of the EU's declining working age population, a debate involving political leaders, the media, social par ...[+++]tners and civil society;

47. Calls on the governments of Member States to promote a responsible balanced debate, based on accurate, independently researched information on the levels of migration, the positive economic and social contribution of migrants as well as costs and on the way that migration can be one of many solutions to the demographic trends of the EU's declining working age population, a debate involving political leaders, the media, social par ...[+++]tners and civil society;

Latvia, with a coastline of 475 km in length and an estimated 12 000 people (that is 1% of the total working population) employed in the fisheries sector (6000 in both the primary and secondary sectors), is an important fishing nation with a significant export sector.

11.01. Certain comparisons between countries, or between industries or sectors within the same economy, become meaningful only when the aggregates in the national accounts (for example, gross domestic product, the final consumption of households, the value-added of an industry, compensation of employees) are considered in relation to the number of inhabitants and labour input variables. It is therefore necessary to have definitions of the total population, employment, jobs, total hours worked, full-time equivalence and employee labour input at constant compensation, which are closely linked to the concepts used in the national accounts.