Dangerous Demographic Change Reinforces Europe’s Declining Image
Dangerous Demographic Change Reinforces Europe’s Declining Image

Author(s): Maria Negreponti-Delivanis, Ioana Panagoreţ
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy, Supranational / Global Economy, Sociology, Social development, Demography and human biology, Economic development, Migration Studies, Globalization
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: demographic evolutions;globalization;economy;birth rate;migration;governance;
Summary/Abstract: Currently, one of the main factors that shows us a picture of Europe's decline is that of demographic change. This process of decline of the West is marked by more than five decades of several indicators and evolutions that show us that although the time of Western civilization is beginning to run out, a new one appears, namely that of the East. This process of decline in which there is an extreme and unprecedented form of capitalism appears more pronounced in Europe compared to the United States and is characterized by: corruption, alienation of peoples from their roots, religion, history, low birth rates, massive flows of migrants and refugees, the totalitarian tendency of governments. Although the signs of decline are numerous, in this paper we will analyze certain demographic developments observed mainly in Europe and which we consider from several points of view dangerous. In addition to these developments, which we consider quite dangerous, globalization is the most important. The paper is structured in four parts, in the first part being presented the basic trends and variations from the population's perspective. In the second and third part are presented the main causes and effects of these variations of the populations and in the fourth part the conclusions of this study.Most of the interpretive analysis of this unwanted stagnation process is based on demographic erosion, population aging, low middle class rates, the invasion of migrants and refugees that change the cultures of the host nations.

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