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Faced with increasing vulnerabilities, Eastern European states are trying to bring their citizens back from abroad. 

As falling birth rates and longer lives shrink the working-age population, tighter labour markets will become the new normal.

For John Wall, the ballot box is for anyone who wishes to have a say – children included.

Amid stubbornly low birth rates, Polish women are bearing the brunt of public pressure for the country's population panic.

Fanni Svégel on attempts to engineer a baby boom that never came – and their harmful effects on women.

For Jörg Tremmel and Lena Winzer, committing to the future can expand democratic possibilities.

A growing number of countries are pushing to ban children from social media as the harmful effects of these platforms become undeniable.

Demographic decline is exposing a fundamental blind spot in modern economics: its inability to recognise the value of care.

As Europe’s electorates age, Ben Wray asks whether intergenerational conflict is inevitable.

Demographic trends cannot be reversed – only navigated. Can societies guarantee wellbeing as the labour force shrinks and fiscal pressures mount? And as older cohorts outnumber the young, is intergenerational conflict inevitable?