‘The village will die’ – Italy is looking for a response to the decline in the number of babies

The narrow main street of Northern Italy, Giacomo de Luca closed: two supermarkets, a hairdresser, restaurant – all the signs of the shutters above the shutters and doors.

Fregona’s handsome city at the foot of the mountains is empty here as many people, because it is less to move or move to more children and more and more.

Now the local elementary school is at risk and the mayor is concerned.

“The New Year cannot continue for only four children. They want to close it,” Luke explains. The minimum class size for financing is 10 children.

“The drops of the birth and the population were very sharp.”

The Mayor calculates that the population of Fregona is in almost five in the last ten years in northern Venice.

In June of this year, only four new births or more than 2700 or more residents were elderly, most of men fill their bags and tomatoes on the weekly market.

For de Luca, a tidal-turner that closed the school setting class: If the kids leave Fregona to learn, they will never look back.

Thus, he walks around the area and even visits a nearby pizza factory, and the parents are trying to send their children to the city and open the school.

“I suggested to take them with a minibus, and children offered to be at school until six in the evening, the children paid by the entire Council,” Mayor’s emergency was announced.

“I’m worried. Small, if things continue, the village will die.”

The demographic crisis of Italy stretches and deepens from Fregon.

Over the past decy, the nationwide population has signed a contract with almost 1.9 million and the number of births fell 16 years in a row.

On average, Italian women now have only 1.18 babies, the lowest level. This was the need for the EU average productivity degree, which needed the population below 1.38 and 31.

Despite the efforts to promote the birth and talking more than family-friendly politics, Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government could not stop slide.

“You have to think a lot before a baby,” Dottor, when Valentine met in the main square of Fegona, acknowledged when I met with a combination of 10-month-old Diletta in a pushchair.

Valentina, for the first year of Diletta, receives a benefit of 200 euros (£ 175) per month, but in 2025, 1,000 Eurova’s new baby bonus was abducted.

There are also new tax breaks and has longer parental leave.

However, Valentina needs to go back to work now and get a favorable childcare is still very harsh.

“Babies are not much, but not many kindergartens (place),” he says. “My grandmother is lucky to take care of my daughter. If not, I don’t know I will leave it.”

Therefore, your friends are spare on maternity.

“It’s hard – work, schools, for money,” says Valentina. “There is some help, but it is not enough to have babies.

“This will not solve this problem.”

Some companies in the Veneto region have done in accordance with their hands.

A short drive from the valley from Fregona is a large industrial property full of small and medium-sized firms, many are managed by families.

An explosion spray producer Irinox has long spent a parenting problem and decided to act instead of losing valuable workers.

The company has joined seven forces to create a short walk from the factory floor – not free, but very discounted and convenient. Was in the first place in Italy.

“It was very important to know that I was a chance to put my son here for two minutes because at any time,” one of the company’s financial cartridges, Melania Sandrin explains.

He would fight to return to work without Kreshe: I did not want to lean on their parents and the state will not take children a full day in general.

“There is also a list of priority … and there are a small number of space,” Melania said.

Like Valentina, he and his friends delayed their children in his 30s, they strived to build their careers, and they are not sure that Melania would be even a second baby. “It’s not easy,” he says.

Later, a tendency that grows here is another factor to reduce productivity.

For all this, CEO Katia also considers “mass changes” to resolve the population of Italy, Ros.

“It’s not a change, but not a $ 1,000 euro pay for free kindergartens. If we want to change the situation, we need strong action,” he says.

Another solution is increasing immigration that is more controversial for Meloni’s government.

More than 40% of employees in the Irinox are already out of abroad.

A map in the factory wall, which is the pins, shows that Burkina came to Burkina Faso. The sudden prohibition of sudden growth in birth, Katia also needs more foreign workers – like Ros, Italy – a more foreign worker to manage the economy like Veneto.

“The future will be.”

Even immigration could not save a school in Treviso nearby.

Last month, Pascoli Primary Closed his doors well, because there was not enough to continue the disciples there.

Only 27 children gathered by an Alpine Bugler, collected by a ceremony shot by an Alpine Bugler, as dropped by the Italian flag was collected for a final ceremony with a feather with a feather.

“It’s a sad day,” said Eleanora Franceschi, by collecting his 8-year-old daughter for the last time. From September, it will have to travel to a different school.

Eleanora is the only accusation of a falling birth incident: said that he made life more difficult for parents who transferren their children in the afternoon in Pascoli school.

Headteacher has another explanation.

“Many people from the outside came here,” he said.

“Some (families) then decided to go to other schools where the immigration index was less.”

“As the years passed, we took people who decided to come to school,” he said, “he said, he points to the tensions in English.

UN forecast for about five million in the next 25 years in the United States, since 59 million years. Increases tension in both ages and economics.

Measures to solve the government so far.

However, Eleanora, as his parents likes, not only cash for a start, but also requires more help in services.

“We are receiving monthly checks, but we need a practical support for children, as well as for free,” he says a nightmare for a three-month school vacation.

“The government wants a larger population, and at the same time,” Eleanora says.

“How can we find more of our baby in this situation?”

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