The solution is clearly a war that kills off a huge chunk of the next generation or two.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The absurd idea that a rich Jew deliberately brings in cheap labour from the developing world to reduce costs, increase profits and undermine Christian values is widely held among politicians in Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party.

In April, Francesco Lollobrigida, who is the partner of Meloni’s sister and now minister for agriculture, linked the demographic crisis to this conspiracy theory, saying the issue of births needed to be addressed because “we cannot give in to the idea of ethnic substitution”.

In November 2022, Agnese Vitali, a politically neutral professor of demography at the University of Trento, was due to take part in a conference entitled The Demographic Emergency in Italy, chaired by a journalist from the religious magazine Famiglia Cristiana.

Research repeatedly shows Italian women express the desire to have the same number of children as northern Europeans (the average is just over two), so demographers conclude that there are clearly obstacles to fulfilling their wishes.

As the former UK minister David Willetts once quipped, “Living at home with your parents is a very powerful contraception.” Italy holds the European record for the highest age of first-time mothers (31.4) – and if you start late, you’re unlikely to have many children.

They want to work, grow, travel, study, and the idea of getting married, let alone starting a family, doesn’t come naturally.” Unlike those who think poverty is the main factor that inhibits the birthrate, Angeleri believes affluence does, too: “The people here are very well-off.

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