B. whereas the economic crisis and austerity measures have brought businesses and families to their knees in Europe, crushing them beneath the burden of very high taxes and record levels of unemployment; whereas it is strategically necessary to boost the social role of the family in order to tackle the crisis, as only by investing in the family nucleus and in its protecti
on will it be possible to exorcise the spectre of social impoverishment that looms over Europe; whereas today more than ever before, European families, young heterosexual couples, need tax incentives and subsidies for their first homes and measures in support of mother
...[+++]hood and the work-life balance;