Slawomir Dudek, head of the Polish Institute of Public Finance, said the Polish population is aging rapidly and this risks becoming a national economic problem. Therefore, he interpreted the conclusions reached by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in its review of the Polish economy for 2023. Rzeczpospolita.
As Dudek points out, Poland is already in a demographic crisis. According to him, the number of Poles decreased by almost 2 million in ten years.
“You can change the orbit of this crisis a little bit, but it will definitely hit us,” said the economist.
According to Dudek, to solve the problem, it is necessary to soften the immigration policy, revive the economic mobility of the population, as well as raise the retirement age and birth rate. At the same time, he stated that “the reality in the latter case is brutal”, demonstrating that even very expensive programs do not bring tangible results.
In February, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell declarationEU countries are going through a “demographic winter”. According to him, the positions of EU countries are very different and Europe has not been able to create a common immigration and asylum policy.