Andreas Panagopoulos, editor-in-chief of To Vima, puts in:
“If a country can no longer replace its working-age population, there are three basic solutions: to boost the birth rate (in the long term), have more older workers (in the medium term) and integrate more migrants into the labour market (in the short term). In practice, all three measures will be necessary. The EU is already examining migration, greater participation by women in the labour market and education as key instruments. … However this raises an enormous political problem: an ageing society needs migrants to maintain its economic performance. But at the same time ageing electorates are increasingly sceptical, if not outright hostile, towards migration. This is one of Europe’s great demographic paradoxes.”