Europe is Dying

Europe Learns the Wrong Lessons
By Karl Zinsmeister

...Europeans simply refuse to consider any dramatic alteration of their ingrained welfare-state habits. A new poll released ...finds that six out of ten Germans currently describe socialism as “a goodidea that so far has been implemented badly.”

...Beyond economics and politics, there are now even deeper divergences which separate Europe...the collapse of the European birthrate (which will leave a majority of residents in many cities with no siblings, cousins, aunts or uncles) ... “Europe is dying... a disease in the realm of the human spirit. the suicide clinic in Switzerland...German laws that legalized prostitution two years ago, theoretically exposing laid-off waitresses and secretaries to the risk of having to entertain job offers from the sex industry or face the loss of unemployment benefits...31 percent of pediatricians in the Netherlands have euthanized an infant, and that a fifth of these took place without the knowledge orconsent of parents.