The Tragedy of the
European Family
Emmanuel Macron, the
newly elected French
president, has no children;
German chancellor Angela
Merkel has no children. British prime minister,
Theresa May has no children; Italian prime
minister Paolo Gentiloni
has no children; Holland’s prime minister, Mark Rutte, Sweden’s Stefan Löfven, Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel, and Scotland’s, first minister, Nicola Sturgeon —all have no children. The list goes on…Latvia’s childless president is Raimonds Vējonis, Lithuania’s childless
president is Dalia Grybauskaitė and Romania’s childless president is Klaus Werner Iohannis. And, Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission too, has no children and is family-less. So to put it rather bluntly: a grossly disproportionate number of the people making serious decisions about Europe’s future have no direct personal sibling, child or grandchildren’s interests at stake in that future. They are not part of a family and have come to see all their attention focused on one dominant and all-powerful social unit to which they pay obeisance and give their complete and devoted attention: The State. The demographics look
problematic. Among native Europeans, the birthrate is currently between 0.2 and 1.1. Europe is not replicating itself and will, if trends are extrapolated—
cease to exist. The numbers are disturbing combining an ageing population, very low birthrates and an inability to
pay for their rich benefits: what will come of Europe? …
http://breitbart.com/london/2017/07/22/malloch-tragedy-european-family/