The core insight is that the demographic challenge cannot be solved through incentives alone. Pensions, bonuses and subsidies ...

Although Pagliara dei Marsi is a small village, it reflects the situation across Italy, where the elderly population is growing, schools are emptying, and villages and towns are gradually shrinking.

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The birth of a baby girl in Pagliara dei Marsi after nearly 30 years has united the tiny Italian village while highlighting Italy’s deepening birth-rate crisis and shrinking public services.

Lara Bussi Trabucco's parents received a €1,000 as part of Italy's pledge to tackle the country's dwindling population.

Amid talk of American decline and China’s rise, hard economic numbers reveal a different reality: the US still leads in ...

That Europe work-and-live dream sitting on your vision board might finally be within reach. Italy is set to open nearly ...

For 30 years, silence had settled over the Italian village – no cries of newborns, and year after year passed without a ...

A new survey finds that state pensions are considered too low, but there is no consensus among Europeans for overhauling them ...

Despite opposition from France and Ireland among others, the ‘significant’ agreement with the South American bloc is set to ...

A rare baby's birth in the nearly deserted Italian village of Pagliara dei Marsi has brought renewed joy and attention. Lara Bussi Trabucco is the first child born there in three decades, highlighting ...

Feted birth of bambina Lara in Pagliara dei Marsi highlights sticky national debate over country’s ‘demographic winter’ In Pagliara dei Marsi, an ancient rural village on the slopes of Mount Girifalco ...