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maxdesalleon Europe Is Entering a Death Spiral: How Immigrants Can Save It

Fully agree with you.

But unfortunately, it takes a whole generation before childcare measures pay off.

maxdesalleon Europe Is Entering a Death Spiral: How Immigrants Can Save It

I think it's actually the governments who did a bad job at integrating these immigrants.

A distinction also needs to be made between immigrants, and refugees. A lot of people directly associate immigrants with refugees, which doesn't necessarily need to be the case.

maxdesalleon Europe Is Entering a Death Spiral: How Immigrants Can Save It

What other solutions do you have in mind? Demography is destiny.

maxdesalleon Europe Is Entering a Death Spiral: How Immigrants Can Save It

The birth rate for Denmark isn't fine.

If you look at the World Bank numbers (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...), the birth rate is at 1.7 children per woman. This means the population is actively declining.

Generally, any birth rate below 2.1 means population decline (without taking immigration into account).