Berlin has come up with a plan to fight an ongoing demographic trend that has seen young people -- especially women - flooding to western Germany from the former eastern states. German Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, in charge of eastern German economic development, has said he wants to spend some 4 million euros ($5.4 million) over the next two years on measures to make the former East German states more attractive to young people. "The prognosis for population development up to 2050 are alarming," Tiefensee told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. "Especially young women are leaving the east. We cannot just sit idly by and watch." [...] "We want to see how we can improve services to thinly populated areas," Tiefensee told the paper. The idea is to provide mobile medical services, multi-generational homes, and book-mobiles, and on-call bus service, among others. A new study by the Berlin Institute, a demographics research group, published on Wednesday showed that young people - especially women between the ages of 18 and 29 - are flooding to western Germany from the eastern states. As a result, there are 25 percent more men than women in some areas -- a European record.
German Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, in charge of eastern German economic development, has said he wants to spend some 4 million euros ($5.4 million) over the next two years on measures to make the former East German states more attractive to young people. "The prognosis for population development up to 2050 are alarming," Tiefensee told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. "Especially young women are leaving the east. We cannot just sit idly by and watch."
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"We want to see how we can improve services to thinly populated areas," Tiefensee told the paper. The idea is to provide mobile medical services, multi-generational homes, and book-mobiles, and on-call bus service, among others.
A new study by the Berlin Institute, a demographics research group, published on Wednesday showed that young people - especially women between the ages of 18 and 29 - are flooding to western Germany from the eastern states. As a result, there are 25 percent more men than women in some areas -- a European record.
The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
As a result, there are 25 percent more men than women in some areas -- a European record.
That's an amazing demographic shift. It's also fertile ground for some interesting sociological studies on the impact of that imbalance on the localities, for example, higher crime or more fistfights. It would help us better understand what's going to be happening in China and India over the next ten years.
The young men stay behind and hook up with the neos. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
It would help us better understand what's going to be happening in China and India over the next ten years.
As far as I was aware, it's already happening. There are a lot of riots in china, usually over land grabs and favouritism, but it's still seems to be pretty common.
As for india, well the rise of anti-muslim hindu nationalism can't be entirely a co-incidence with the male/female balance going awry. keep to the Fen Causeway
