Boosting Italy’s birthrate has become a patriotic cause for the far right. But it’s an idea that’s doomed | Tobias Jones
With the country’s population tumbling, what Italy really needs is greater immigration, yet how could Giorgia Meloni sanction that? Fifty years ago in Italy, there was one person over 65 for every child aged six or under. Just before Christmas, Italy’s national statistics office, Istat, revealed that the ratio is now 5.6 to 1. The … Read more