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Poland's demographic, migration & fertility rate disaster [34]
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Native European and Polish fertility rates.
Policies in Hungary and Poland are aimed at boosting birthrates. But will it help arrest population decline?
"It follows neatly on from the government's relentless anti-migration message of the past five years. "In all of Europe there are fewer and fewer children, and the answer of the west to this is migration," said Orbán in his annual state of the nation address last year. "They want as many migrants to enter as there are missing kids, so that the numbers will add up. We Hungarians have a different way of thinking. Instead of just numbers, we want Hungarian children. Migration for us is surrender."
theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/baby-bonuses-fit-the-nationalist-agenda-but-do-they-work
"Yet despite all the investment, the jury is still out on whether these policies work. In Hungary, the fertility rate has risen from 1.23 to 1.48, though it is hard to gauge how much of that is down to specific policies. In Poland, a brief spike in births after the introduction of the 500+ policy was not sustained. "You don't expect a breakthrough in two or three years, it's going to take at least 10," said Zoltán Kovács, Orbán's spokesman."
What do you think about this? It looks like financial incentives to rise fertility rates among Poles and Hungarians are still insufficient by far. There is a surprising difference between Eastern and Western approach to the problem. Shouldn't native Europeans supposed to be recognized as "ethnicities on the verge of extinction" and there could be some financial help to rise children along the ethnical lines?
