Demography
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Germany: ‘Federal government courts on workers from crisis countries’
15 May 2013893PresseuropFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung -
Germany: ‘Ways out of the trap’
13 May 20134029PresseuropHandelsblatt -
Portugal: ‘Portugal, a country emptied’
5 March 20131468PresseuropPúblico -
Fertility: The crisis hits birth rates
15 January 20131104PresseuropLe Figaro -
The front page: 18 December 2012
18 December 2012PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES, România libera, Trouw & 4 others -
Poland: Kids are so last century
17 December 201236054 Polityka Warsaw -
Senior citizens: Granny lives in Slovakia now
31 October 201245831 Welt am Sonntag Berlin -
Poland: Dark side of the economic miracle
7 June 20111983 The Guardian London -
EU accession: The Balkan family photo is blurred
21 January 20111152 Politika Belgrade -
Immigration: Fertility, GDP, and the Vietnamese...
19 January 2011874 Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
France: Despite crisis, French making babies
19 January 20111PresseuropLes Echos -
Population: Poland is shrinking
7 January 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Demographics: Romania 2050 will be Roma?
5 January 20113PresseuropGandul -
Children: Work or family, do we have to choose?
15 December 20102851 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
Population: It’s time to make babies
13 October 20101673 Le Figaro Paris -
Demographics: 500 million Europeans, and dwindling
23 July 2010PresseuropDie Presse -
Immigration: Why dread the migrant horde?
11 December 200915 Polityka Warsaw -
Family: Make more babies, get more hols
1 December 2009PresseuropDe Standaard -
Family Planning : Developing world blamed for global warming
19 November 2009PresseuropLe Monde -
France: Liberté, Egalité, Fertilité
20 October 2009PresseuropLe Monde -
Demographics: Half a billion Europeans
4 August 2009PresseuropEl Periódico de Catalunya
Poles are staying in education longer and putting off having children – sometimes for too long. The country already has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world and if current trends continue, it may well top the global childlessness ranking in the not too distant future, writes a Polityka commentator. 
Germany is getting greyer every year. But the country has a shortfall of trained nurses for pensioners, and care homes are expensive. Those outside Germany are much cheaper – and German families are sending their seniors into them. 
It might be hailed as one of Europe’s economic success stories, but Poland’s health and social services are crumbling, and its well-qualified youth are increasingly preferring exile over low-paid, futureless unemployment back home. 
The population census demanded by Brussels has become a political challenge in most of the countries of the western Balkans. Twenty years after the start of the wars in former Yugoslavia, the venture brings ethnic and social tensions back into the spotlight. 
Is there a way to satisfy a need to grow the labour force and set right the wrongs of history? In differing contexts, Hungary, Romania and Spain have found a solution, reintegrating “compatriots” living abroad. Here, a conservative Polish columnist offers his own peculiar remedy for the immigration “threat”... 
In many European countries, working mothers have to contend with social and employment policies that complicate their lives. Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter wonders about the factors that should be taken into account when considering measures to increase the fertility rate. 
To counter the decline in Europe’s population, we will have to take stock of two important points, insists the former president of France’s Institute for Demographic Studies: demographic change is proceeding at a different rate in individual countries, and immigration alone is not the solution. 
Immigration between member states and from outside the EU is the subject of ongoing debate in most European countries. Polish weekly Polityka reports on demographic data suggesting that immigration will be indispensable in the long term, and argues in favour of greater cooperation on this potentially divisive issue.