<< .... when I bring it up in class my European students just shake their heads in disbelief. >>
Despite that it is increasingly more difficult by the minute to tell the same young Euro-peons [And offshore-satellite state Canadians, Brits, New Zealanders et al] male from female -- and that the simple math that their 1.4-children-per-Euro-peon-woman falls far short of the 2.1-children per Absolutely necessary to their survival.
The Brussels-based Neo-Soviet will not last 15 years and none of the Euro-peon-styled states 50. Holland will go first -- probably before the EU and already-doomed once-great-britain -- its natives producing only 1.8 offspring per woman -- within 50!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)