[katana]

"Migration is not the main reason behind the recovery of period fertility in Europe however. The reproductive behaviour of migrants played only a relatively modest role"

Difficult to believe that. And as long as the most popular name for newborn baby boys in Europe is "Mohammed" I'd argue they still have a very significant problem.

[hinckley buzzard]

MIgration may not be the problem, but there are millions of unassimilated members of alien cultures who have been born in europe, and are now breeding. These people will be invisible unless ethnic identities are correlated with birth rates. France has their hordes of Algerians, many born in France, Germany has a large contingent of German born people who are culturally Turkish moslems, and so on. These people are in their second and third generations. Betcha they have more kids than the original european Germans and Frenchmen.

[hellbender]

Let’s hope that some of the migrants are good people like the Poles, who have been spreading to places like Britain.

[Elendur]

you two should both nailed that one fast!!!

...i’d sure like to see the exact numbers, of muslims and non-muslims.

it says: “In all but four countries of the EU (Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta and Portugal), fertility rates increased between 2000 and 2008.” yet, it says the rates are still all BELOW 1.5 so the “increase” is very slight.

and if this is true:
“Nowadays, 1 in 5 babies in Europe has a mother who was born abroad.”

then almost ALL the increase must be from Muslim immigration. yet they state the exact opposite?

...and we know the truth is as katana stated.
soon the name “mohammad” will be as common in Europe, as it is in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan...