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...SOURCES: EUROSTAT...
Britain is less than one half the size of France and only about two-thirds the size of Germany but, by the year 2060, it will have more people living in it than both countries, according to a new report by the research arm of the European Union, Eurostat...
...Eurostat study's most serious implications are for an aging population and the ability of European societies to pay for pensions for their elderly after they stop working. Today, there are three working-age Europeans for every one over 65. By 2060, that number will have fallen to one in two. "This is a big problem and countermeasures must be taken," Steffen Kroehnert, a demographic expert at the Berlin Institute for Population and Development says. His institute published similar projections earlier this month...
...Eurostat researchers caution that their projections are a "what if" scenario and do not take into account future changes in immigration policy or fertility rates that could alter the outcome. But Kroehnert says that in the case of declining birth rates, it will be difficult to make up for them simply by adjusting policy. In many cases the decline has its roots in developments over several decades, he says. Making up for a decline in number of babies by, say, 300,000 by admitting 300,000 more immigrants "who have to be integrated" isn't realistic, he says...
Eckhardt argues that the German workplace has "a lot of catching up to do" with European neighbors like France or Belgium on such issues as equal wages, promotion prospects and daycare. In 2006 German women earned 22% less than their male counterparts, according to Eurostat, making Germany's wage gap the widest in Europe after those of Slovakia and Cyprus. And the proportion of management positions held by women - 15% - remains below the European average...