Relatively to the rest of Europe is still on the upper echelons so some of the policies do work. The issue is: without hope for the future there's not much the

Relatively to the rest of Europe is still on the upper echelons so some of the policies do work. The issue is: without hope for the future there's not much the State can do to push people into having kids. We live in an age of hopelessness, I don't have my parents optimism from the 80s, I'm starting to approach 40 and every 5 years something happen to chip away on the little hope I still have.