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Europe Today

Watch the video: Love is all around us — but babies are not?

Valentine’s Day is coming, so let’s talk about love because that is all you are going to read about this weekend anyway. Have you heard already that Europe is running out of babies? But your reporter is not here to lecture you on whether to have children. Quite the opposite.

13/02/2026

Economy

China announces fertility subsidy programm as births hit historic lows

After decades of curbing births, China is urgently trying to reverse a population slump that puts its economic and political future at risk.

29/07/2025

Europe in Motion

Rock bottom birth rates: What are Europe's least fertile nations?

While parents should have at least two babies to keep Europe's population stable, current birth rates barely exceed one. Will the new wave of over-60-year-old boomer fathers save the continent?

18/07/2025

Health news

AI could be used to improve chances of pregnancy through IVF

Researchers looked at how artificial intelligence could be used to improve the outcome of an IVF procedure.

15/01/2025

Health news

Scientists find how sperm and egg fuse together in new study

A new study uncovered how a sperm and an egg fuse together.

18/10/2024

Health news

Europe's fertility crisis: Which countries are having fewer babies?

For the first time since 1960, the number of live births in the EU has fallen below 4 million, one of the lowest fertility rates in the world.

28/09/2024

Russia

Russia's birth rate drops to its lowest in 25 years, data shows

In July, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the country's low birth rate was "catastrophic" for Russia's future.

10/09/2024

Health news

Global fertility rates will see 'dramatic decline' by 2100

Fertility rates in European countries are already below the global average, with the rates based on the number of children a woman will have in her lifetime.

21/03/2024

Health news

Scientists create testicles in a lab to help male infertility

Scientists managed to create organoid testicles, a major scientific achievement that paves the way for further research to help with male infertility.

03/03/2024

Italy

Why is Italy so old?

Declining birth rates and better survival odds for older people have significantly aged Italy’s population, causing economists to worry about the country’s future.

28/02/2024

Health news

Alabama hospital pauses IVF treatments due to ruling on frozen embryos

The US state of Alabama's Supreme Court recently ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law.

22/02/2024

Health news

AI can find sperm in infertile men 1,000 times faster than a human

A process that takes hours of careful work by an embryologist could be done in seconds by artificial intelligence (AI).

27/06/2023

Work

The EU’s population is set to shrink by 6% by 2100

Is Europe facing a demographic crisis? We break down the data.

04/04/2023

Health news

Why are so many Swedish women having babies in their late 40s?

New data shows Swedish women are increasingly giving birth to babies after 45 years of age more than teenagers under 19. Here's why it is happening.

29/03/2023

Health news

Can’t get pregnant? 'Forever chemicals' in your home may be to blame

A new study links PFAS - “forever chemicals” found everywhere from cookware to toilet paper and period products - to lower fertility in women.

24/03/2023

Health news

Which countries have the highest and lowest fertility rates in Europe?

The fertility rate in the EU increased by 8 per cent over the last two decades but the number of children being born has started to gradually fall.

17/03/2023