Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-002762/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Catherine Griset (PfE), Virginie Joron (PfE), Julien Leonardelli (PfE), Fabrice Leggeri (PfE), Julie Rechagneux (PfE), Gilles Pennelle (PfE), Rody Tolassy (PfE), André Rougé (PfE), Jean-Paul Garraud (PfE), Pascale Piera (PfE), Mathilde Androuët (PfE), Séverine Werbrouck (PfE), Thierry Mariani (PfE), Irmhild Boßdorf (ESN), Georgiana Teodorescu (ECR)
Europe’s demographic winter poses fundamental questions for the future of our societies, on both the economic and civilisational fronts. The Draghi report predicts an annual decline of almost two million people of working age between now and 2040, which European politicians want to offset with immigration.
At the same time, some campaigns that have been supported or shared promote ‘childfree’ or ‘no kids’ lifestyles, touting them as emancipating, or even morally superior.
While freedom of choice in family life is of course guaranteed in the EU, it is legitimate to question the potential contradictions between such cultural representations and several Member States’ population targets.
- 1.Can the Commission specify which birthrate and parenthood initiatives and projects it funds and indicate whether follow-up is carried out to prevent antinatalist lifestyles being implicitly promoted in the cultural and educational content it supports?
- 2.Does it recognise that the changing demographics cannot be solved by immigration alone?
- 3.Does it intend to promote, in the spirit of European cultural sovereignty, a policy to boost birth rates that focuses on the family and passing on values and heritage from one generation to the next?
Submitted: 8.7.2025