European Central Bank: Migrants could stem Europe’s “demographic suicide”

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. | September 17, 2015

Three month old baby Parwan from Afghanistan sleeps on a bed at the temporary registration center of the southern German border town Passau, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Refugees were taken to the center from trains, cars or were picked up on streets. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Three month old baby Parwan from Afghanistan sleeps on a bed at the temporary registration center of the southern German border town Passau, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Refugees were taken to the center from trains, cars or were picked up on streets. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

A top European Central Bank official leaned into the migration debate. According to TIME, ECB vice president Vitor Constancio said, “To change the demographic trends, promoting birth is not enough…It also has to be done through immigration. If not, we’re creating a great difficulty to growth and to the welfare of future generations.”

Along with the long term economic impact, the refugees may bring far reaching cultural influence to the continent. IBT reported this week Saudi Arabia’s offer to build fund mosques in Europe to accommodate the largely Muslim population in what has become the largest human migration since the Second World War.

 

 

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