The EU's Demographic Crisis

Population decline puts today's European Union (EU) into a great predicament. Member states must make do with fewer workers, less production, fewer services, and so on. Holding onto older workers, financing health care and retirement, filling vital positions, and maintaining a dynamic economy are among the challenges that the EU must wrestle with today. Its ability to meet that challenge will determine to a large extent what kind of EU we have tomorrow.

• Tendencies
• Consequences
• Solutions

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