Not to work specific jobs. Not to invest. Just to be under 35 and breathe their air. Applications open next month and nobody knows about it. The island is dying. Average age hitting 50. Schools closing. Businesses can't find workers. Portuguese kids all fled to Lisbon or London. So now they're paying foreigners to come save their island, and Americans are sleeping on it while competing for $3,000 studio apartments in Austin.
The prime minister said the 1.6bn (1.4bn) relief package had been dictated by one of the biggest challenges facing the Mediterranean nation : a demographic crisis of unprecedented scale. We know that the cost of living is one thing if you don't have a child and another if you have two or three children, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday after announcing the policies. So, as a state we should find a way to reward our citizens who make the choice [of having children].
It was one of the most horrifying targets of Russia's war on Ukraine so far. Reports showed a pregnant woman on a stretcher, her face ashen with shock, legs smeared with blood and a hand holding her bump. Behind her, the bombed-out ruins of Mariupol's maternity hospital. More than a dozen people, including women in labour, were injured in the attack in March 2022. The woman photographed, Iryna Kalinina, later died along with her unborn baby.
