Det finns inget utrymme för uttalanden eller debatter, men vi har lyssnat uppmärksamt på Marialiese Flemming. ###>As a member of the board of the European Senior Citizens Union (ESCU), I have focussed very intensively on these issues recently, and it has emerged – for our organisation now has members in twenty European states – that there is a growing debate in all the European countries about the situation in homes for the elderly.