How much longer will Europe be Europe?
I saw this recent factoid about the population of Brussels, Belgium.
Only 1 in 4 of the population of Brussels, Belgium has a Belgian background.
This leads to a more startling fact.
Brussels is home to the headquarters of both the European Union and NATO so a portion of those numbers are attributable to foreign diplomats and military officers.
However, I don't think most of those expats are rioting about racism.
Brussels has been inundated with Muslim immigrants.
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The streets of Brussels look more like Kabul or Tehran than the headquarters city of the EU.
How can Belgium be Belgium without Belgians?
Or Germany be Germany without Germans?
Or Italy be Italy without Italians?
How much longer will Europe be Europe?
Demography is destiny.
There is no country in Europe that has a total fertility rate equal to 2.1 which is required for a stable population.
These numbers also understate the TFR of the native born population as immigrants typically have higher birth rates.
For example, Belgium's TFR of 1.53 is comprised of 1.39 for the native born population and 2.23 for those not born in the EU.
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In France, the comparable numbers are 1.35 and 2.35.
In Germany it is 1.35 and 2.05.
These numbers lead us to an obvious conclusion.
Europe will be a majority Islamist continent at some point in the foreseeable future.
The United States has many problems but they are nothing compared to Europe.
An aging population.
Low birth rates.
Unsupportable pension promises.
Massive social welfare costs that have to be supported.
Increasing social and religious tensions due to the large migrant populations.
High energy costs and religious-like commitment to Net Zero.
A burdensome array of regulations and government bureaucracy that stifles innovation.
For example. look at this graphic that compares the number of public companies in the United States and Europe founded over the last 50 years that have a $10+ billion market cap today.
This is one example of why Europe has fallen substantially behind the United States economy in GDP per capital over the last 25 years.
25 years ago GDP per capita was similar in the U.S., the EU and UK.
The United States has substantially outperformed those on the other side of the Atlantic since 2000 as this graphic indicates.
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| Source: https://www.northerntrust.com/europe/insights-research/2024/weekly-economic-commentary/europe-struggling-to-keep-pace |
Overregulation and lack of innovation is largely responsible for a large gap in productivity improvement between the United States and the EU.
Europe would be facing a lot of problems in the future even without the Muslim invasion that has overtaken many countries on the continent.
However, I believe allowing so many immigrants in from Muslim countries will not allow Europe to address their other problems and recover its prior prominence.
Europe will no longer be Europe.
It will be something far different than it has in the past.
I have told my children and others that if they have an interest in experiencing Europe, its churches, and its history as the foundation of Western culture, I would advise going sooner rather than later.
The trend is clear and it favors Islam.
Europe is going to look like nothing we would recognize in another 20-30 years if the trend is not reversed.
And it does not appear that it will be easily reversed when the EU elites are openly targeting those who support nationalism from assuming power such as the AfD party in Germany, Marine LePen in France and the conservative candidates in Romania.
This is the case even though the people in many countries are voting to preserve their culture, heritage and identity.
These people understand that Europe (or substitute another country) will not be Europe if they don't change course they are on.
Why are others intent on destroying the last vestiges of what their forebears built?
In all the years of reading Beeline, put this at the top of the list. To think only weeks ago Vance got eaten alive in the press for “lecturing” Europe on their immigration policies. Maybe they need to read Beeline! Where this concerns me are these various national parties in these countries that have had enough. Isn’t that how populist movements turn into actions not seen since Germany in the late 30s? Or has Europe become totally complacent?
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