Our e-pal Bill K. sends along this link to a mordant little item at Gates of Vienna. The gist:
– Emmanuel Macron, the newly elected French President, has no children.
– German Chancellor Angela Merkel has no children.
– Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has no children
– British Prime Minister Theresa May has no children.
– Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni has no children.
– Holland’s Mark Rutte,
– Sweden’s Stefan LÁ¶fven,
– Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel, and
– Scotland’s Nicola Sturgeon, all have no children.
– Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, has no children.
So: if you’ve wondered why the leaders of Western Europe don’t seem to care about its future, a fair question is: why would they?
One commenter makes the heartening point that the presidents and prime ministers of the Visegrad nations — Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czechia — have 26 children between them. Another reminds us that Marine le Pen has three.
The future belongs to those who show up for it.
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For that list of childless leaders, it’s easier and quicker to import an adult Muslim than raise a EUropean child. The present belongs to those who are adults.
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