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Births in Germany fall to lowest level for a decade, compounding demographic challengesGerman births fell last year to their lowest level for a decade, while the number of marriages also declined sharply close to record postwar lows, compounding the demographic challenges facing Europe’s largest economy.The 693,000 babies born in Germany last year dropped 6.2 per cent from the previous year to the lowest level since 2013, according to figures published by the federal statistical office on Thursday.The difficulty of tackling Germany’s ageing population was underlined by a 7.6 per cent drop in the number of marriages in the country, which fell to the lowest level since the start of the data in 1950 — excluding 2021 when pandemic lockdowns caused many nuptials to be postponed or cancelled.
A message from the IMF on how to fix the EU’s ‘limping’ single marketAlso in this newsletter: former executive of a scandal-embroiled Polish oil group is running for a seat in EU parliamentGood morning. You’re getting the newsletter from me this week while Henry is away for the next 10 days.But first, he left a dispatch from the chief of the IMF, who has a primer on how to boost the EU’s economic confidence. And our man in Warsaw looks into the embattled former head of Poland’s national oil company’s pursuit of a seat in the European parliament.Cool, calm, collectedAs European leaders grapple with how to reverse the continent’s sense of economic malaise, the head of the IMF has a piece of advice to start: stop being so critical, writes Henry Foy.Context: How to improve EU competitiveness is a key focus for Brussels, as member states fret that the bloc is rapidly falling behind the US and China.“Europe is rich. [The] question is how you . . . get Europe to regain self-confidence. I’ve never seen anybody succeeding with a lack of confidence,” said Kristalina Georgieva, the fund’s managing director. “So maybe if the European leaders talk more about what Europe can do rather than what it cannot, we’ll be in a better place.”She said that while “Europe has strengths”, the issue was that “the single market is still limping”. According to Georgieva, Europe’s main disadvantages against the US are a lack of domestic energy supplies, a fractured capital market and a failure to leverage migration.But she’s got a fix at least for the latter two.“The capital markets union is absolutely essential for European competitiveness, because in the absence of it, the financial assets of Europe do not work hard enough,” Georgieva said about Brussels’ eternal project to harmonise financial markets.“If you compare the United States and Europe in terms of size of financial assets, they’re pretty much the same . . . But in the United States, the functioning of the capital markets is what makes a huge difference in how these financial assets deliver for the economy.”“These are 27 countries, of course. They are not one country as the United States is,” she added. “But even so, there is much more that you can do. And it doesn’t cost money. The only thing it requires is political will.”Georgieva also said that migration could provide a solution to Europe’s ageing population.“We have an ageing population in Europe. And immigration is not an easy topic,” the Bulgarian said. “But despite all the agitations [over migration] in the United States, the inflow of immigrants makes a huge difference to the US economy. Whereas in Europe, that is not so much the case.”The spectacular economic growth of 10 countries that joined the EU two decades ago is one of the continent’s clearest success stories. But as the early gains start to fade and living standards catch up, a new impetus is needed.(...)
Respecto a los millones y millones de inmigrantes que nos faltan, ya lo dijo Sebastián, que aquí cabíamos 60 millones.Qué bonito sería el mundo si nos llegaran 37 millones de inmigrantes cualificados, respetuosos de la Ley y las costumbres españolas, con ganas de trabajar y de desarrollar sus vidas aquí, aportando valor a nuestra economía.La realidad es que ese tipo de perfil (cualificado, con ganas de trabajar, que cumple la Ley y se adapta -más o menos- al lugar de destino) corresponde a los 35.000 españoles que salen huyendo cada mes de España para poder ganarse la vida. No quiero caer en tópicos, pero es cierto, exportamos talento e importamos, con honrosas excepciones, la purria que no es capaz de ganarse la vida en otros países. El otro tabú del que no se habla en los medios, tan ocupados ellos con sus golden visas y con los millones de extranjeros comprando vivienda en el barrio de Salamanca.No hay día que no lea al menos 5 noticias de crímenes cometidos por inmigrantes a calzón quitado, sin esconderse, sin preocuparles de que haya cámaras, y enfrentándose violentamente con la Policía.Lo he puesto más atrás, esto sólo se soluciona dando un escarmiento ejemplar y público a quién ha permitido y fomentado esto.