France’s Pension Crisis and North African Immigration

France’s pension system is facing severe tests, influenced by population aging, low fertility rates, and challenges in immigration integration. These factors amplify the fiscal pressures of the pay-as-you-go model. From my observation, while North African immigrants provide labor supplementation, their lower productivity and generous family reunification policies may exacerbate future retirement expenditure burdens, thereby threatening … Continue reading France’s Pension Crisis and North African Immigration →

From Freedom to Demography: How Europe Lost Sight of Its Own Promise

The more I think about it, the more I feel we are trapped in a “gaze” dilemma: policymakers look at aggregates, curves, and quarterly reports, yet fail to see the expressions on neighborhood streets, the processes inside factories, or the queues in schools and clinics. The EU’s original promise was the Four Freedoms, free movement … Continue reading From Freedom to Demography: How Europe Lost Sight of Its Own Promise →