Posted on 10/23/2016 6:11:53 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
The radical report, titled ‘Replacement Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?’ advocates an influx of immigrants as a means of supporting an ageing population.
It projects that over the next 50 years the population of several western countries, including the UK, Germany, France and Italy, will steadily decline unless measures are taken to reverse the trend.
Penned in 2001, the report has resurfaced in the wake of the migrant crisis sweeping Europe.
It reads: “The new challenges of declining and ageing populations will require comprehensive reassessments of many established policies and programmes, including those relating to international migration.
“Focusing on these two striking and critical population trends, the report considers replacement migration for eight low-fertility countries... and two regions.
“Replacement migration refers to the international migration that a country would need to offset population decline and population ageing resulting from low fertility and mortality rates.”
The two regions the report focusses on is Europe and the European Union.
When breaking down migration into the European Union, it hypothesised the EU would need an extra 612,000 people per year between 2000-2025, and 1.3 m per year from 2025-2050 to prevent the overall population declining.
It adds: “The annual numbers of immigrants who would be needed to prevent the population of working-age from declining are about double the numbers received in the last decade.
“If one wishes to keep active support ratios at levels closer to what they are currently, without large numbers of immigrants, serious consideration would have to be given to increasing active participation in the labour force beyond the age of 65 years.”
The report states that if the current situation continued unchanged some countries would see their entire population decrease by a quarter or one third.
In order to support the older generations the retirement age would need to be raised to 75.
Recent figures from Eurostat, the statistical arm of the European Union (EU), revealed that without migration Italy's population will plummet by 10 million, from 60.6m to 51.5m by 2050, raising Italy's average age to 53.7.
The Italian minister for regional affairs, Enrico Costa, called the figures a "doomsday scenario" and has urged more to be done to promote domestic birth rates.
He advocated Italy adopting more policies to promote domestic births, adding: “We need structural measures”.
The politician added national plans of individual EU states were not enough to reverse the decline in home births, but EU-wide policies are needed.
The report itself advocates an overhaul of policies geared towards immigration.
It says: "The new challenges being brought about by declining and ageing populations will require objective, thorough and comprehensive reassessments of many established economic, social and political policies and programs."
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under fire fore her 'open door' policy for migrants, which has seen hundreds of thousands settle across the country.
More than one million people have headed to Europe since last year, dubbed the migrant crisis, with national governments' varying in their response.
Squalid camps have sprung up at borders, notably Idomeni at the Greece-Macedonia border at the Jungle at Calais.
Chancellor Merkel's ruling CDU (Christian Democratic Union) party received a drubbing in the elections for state parliaments in recent months, losing ground to the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
Her party is widely expected to lose the general election next year.
1.3 Muslims IS a population crisis!
Why not a tax benefit for citizens having babies? It certainly would be cheaper.
This is a recipe for self destruction. Maybe if the refugees the EU accepted were employable in a western democracy, they might have a chance. But it looks like to ones coming are looking for lifetime freebies on the backs of aged pensioners. The only remaining source of income for the new Europeans then will be violence and robberies.
Shouldn’t the “or” in the title be an “and?”
As in, “UN told EU to accept 1.3 million refugees AND face a population crisis?”
The Islamization of Europe is going into warp drive.
By the same reasoning, as my children grow up and move out, I should bring rabid animals into my home to maintain a steady number of warm bodies in the house. What could go wrong?
Or they could cut taxes, cut government and promote Christianity to get people to have more kids...
Pretty much.
And the crisis will only get worse as Europeans (and others) continue to stupidly not have enough kids to sustain their own populations without immigration.
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Another example of the coziness, the cooperation between the Marxists/Leftists of the UN, and their associates of the Islamic persuasion. Muslims, and Marxists. A relationship made in Hell.
We’ve got 63Million people in a country the size of Wyoming.
The UN can take a running jump !
Idiots listening to Morons
They could always abandon Feminism and the Sexual Revolution in favor of honoring women again as wives and mothers. The birth-dearth did not happen by itself.
A flat or declining population is only a problem to social-engineering leftists who have wracked up huge debts in fiat currency. A declining population simply means the ponzi scheme goes bust. They can not have that.
otherwise, throughout history, the populations of nations have risen and fallen due to war and peace, favorable or ill climates, disease or health, etc...
--Shakespeare, "King Lear."
Lotsa luck having to depend on the Muslim welfare class to support the elderly non-Muslims. They aren’t known for their compassion.
If there were any real leaders in Western nations, they’d be encouraging the native citizens to have more children, and governments would provide tax and other incentives. That’s something Putin has been doing in Russia for several years.
And they’d tell the UN where to shove it.
This is genocide, the UN needs to be out of the US. Let the EU deal with them
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