When ancient times were studied at school, one was amazed to see how many peoples they were swept away by history: forced assimilations, guerre, invasions, mass exterminations, demographic collapses, sensational ends of ancient civilizations and times powerful.

In contemporary Europe no one would dare imagine that a similar fate could befall any people, but reality sadly revives the horrors of the past under new banners: with the denatality, for example.

Like today, Bulgaria is dying and emptying

The Bulgaria, Member country of the European Union since 1 January 2007, if things proceed like this it is destined to die. Its population reached in 1989, on the eve of the end of real socialism, the impressive figure for its history of over 9 millions of citizens; In the 2015 had already collapsed to 7 million and 168.000 ma from 30 years, according to United Nations forecasts also reported by The Economist, they will just be there 5 millions of Bulgarians, bringing the nation back demographically to more than 90 years ago, catapulting it to the data recorded shortly after the First World War.

Always The Economist cites the emblematic case of the Bulgarian town of Vratsa, located in the north-west of the country: administrative center of the region, with historical roots from the time of the domination of the Roman Empire, railway and road junction, important for the mines, the production of machine tools, textile, feeding, chemistry, or even for the metal or ceramic products industries, important tourist place with numerous accommodation facilities, loses every year 2 mila inhabitants.

An economic madness that massacres an entire nation

salary miserable and unacceptable working relationships, together with sieve borders and the absence of social security, they push many Bulgarians to flee abroad in search of better wages (maybe in “hard currency”, as in Euros) or not to do children. How it got this far? It's not difficult to understand: Bulgaria has the lowest minimum wages in the entire European Union (around the 286 Euros per month) and this is an invaluable treasure for large foreign companies (like the Pirin-Tex, in business for the much more famous one Hugo Boss), who arrive here like locusts to "feed" on terrace, fabric products, ecc.

The information network also covered it Euronews, 2 months ago: “Global competition, in nations with low production costs such as in Africa, Asia or Turkey, causes Eastern European factories to be continually pressured and pushed to reduce costs“.

The mass exodus of Bulgarians and the denatality deadly make it even difficult, both for foreign giants and for Bulgarian companies, find adequate manpower and so it is not possible to launch any new development plan; as if that wasn't enough, this situation is detrimental, in the long run, the very existence of productive activities.

Some, from newspaper columns Westerners, they raised their voices by addressing painful complaints to the Bulgarian rulers, who should push for more immigration: new arms, at low cost and ready to accept non-existent wages. It would seem crazy, but the magazine announced it haughtily Quartz with an article so titled: “The EU nations that are in desperate need of migrants so as not to shrink…”.

The skeletal hand of the birth rate decline on Europe

All the nations ofEast Europeans show that they are on the verge of dying, year after year, from a demographic point of view: Bulgaria is in first place in the ranking (EU) and Latvia second (also a member of the EU, as well as the Euro; passed from 2 million in 2011 to 1 million and 925 thousand 2018). In the classification there are many other nations of the EU, like Croatia, in Lithuania, in Romania, Poland and Hungary: we passed by here 9,34 millions of Hungarians 1950 just 9,72 million in 2017, and a huge reduction is expected for the 2030 and the 2050.

This data, together with the sensational and horrendous case of Bulgaria, make us fully understand the validity of the family policies initiated by the Hungarian government Orban: put the oars in the boat, surrender to this collapse, it means harming one's fellow citizens and, in fact, the immigrants themselves, who would be brought here to be super exploited and then thrown into socio-economic isolation. Nothing new: we are, Unfortunately, We too are experimenting first-hand as Italians.

L’Italy, in the European Union, it's at the end of the classification among the worst nations for fertility rate; Only Cyprus is worse than us, Spain and Malta. The highest rate was reached in 2010 with quota 1,6 live births per woman, but in any case below the famous "replacement threshold” that is, that factor which, if respected, guarantees the offspring to replace those who age and die (generally this threshold is around 2,1 children for woman).

According to the data of 2017, we are below altitude 1,5: an absolute worsening. I know if you have an account, Furthermore, regarding the average age of new mothers, results that are anything but positive are obtained: on a general level, taking the whole EU as a whole, we moved on 28,7 years (come media) In the 2013 ai 29.1 of the 2017.

The countertrend to this bloodletting of births is represented by these nations, with the highest total fertility rate although always below the replacement threshold: France (1,9 children for woman), Sweden (1,78), Ireland (1,77), Denmark (1,75).

Chilling data

It is paradoxical to note that there are nations, like Italy, where both the data relating to the average age of the madre at the time of the birth of the first child (Higher age means less chance of carrying out further pregnancies, with also general risks to the health of both the unborn child and the mother) and also concerning the number of children; while there are particular cases of nations with a low average age of the mother but with a low overall birth rate, such as in the Baltic countries.

Here there is a further sad record, which fully completes the picture of anti-social and anti-popular crimes that push entire populations towards their death: in Estonia (il 46%), Latvia and Lithuania, nations from which a lot of people emigrate, pensioners are more at risk of being poor than anyone else in the European Union; immediately after them are the Bulgarians, while we are below the European average (which is 14%) and those who are safer are the French (7%).

Remarkable, Furthermore, that the “European economic locomotive”, the Germany, it has a higher percentage of elderly pensioners who risk being poor than the European average and even than Romania and Slovenia. He talked about it carefully, using official data fromEurostat, il Public information service of Latvia. Likewise, in Bulgaria the fertility rate is miserably below the EU average levels (i.e. below 1,59) but mothers are younger of the Italian ones.

These are colossal imbalances, destined as we have seen to annihilate the real opportunity for peoples and therefore nations to rise: it's not simply about increasing your own population, this would be a useless criterion taken individually. The real problem is ensuring that the elderly are succeeded by a generation that is prepared and can take up the baton, so, engage in Work be it of the arm or of the mind; without births and with mass emigration, and the Bulgarian case proves it, a nation is as if it digests itself.

Trying to run, to increase the productivity, reducing costs, chasing the crazy plan of global competition, it does nothing but further starve the Bulgarian people who therefore no longer have children - for the huge ones injustices social – or flees abroad.

If a runner expected to improve his records, continuing to exercise to the point of exhaustion but without an adequate nutritional intake, it will certainly never be fat but will seriously risk falling to the ground lost and exhausted.

People must not die

The problem of denatality, together with that of emigration and the various iniquities that afflict the family, they are crucial factors for the present and future of any nation especially if it has industries; the unhealthy idea of substitute those who were not born or those who fled with immigration, It makes us understand some important aspects very well.

First of all to exploiters, immigrationists and similar salary levels, of social well-being and security of their people are of no interest in the slightest because it is precisely the problem of Work and his remuneration underlying the matter; secondly, we notice that for certain politicians we are all like guinea pigs, laboratory rats: transportable anywhere for any crazy need globalisation.

We must reverse course: only there, nell’Isle of the Dead by the Swiss painter Arnold Bocklin, i ports they are always open.

(by Pietro Vinci)