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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?

Since 2019, CSOs have served as a democratic opposition to Greece’s illiberal turn. But how long can they withstand systemic repression?

The 7 May elections reveal growing support for independence in the UK’s smaller members.