Sitting in a Brussels café after the First Forum on Europe’s Demographic Future, I’ve time to write some thoughts on the previous 36 hours. The European Commission brought together the Forum’s 400 delegates in the Charlemagne building for the first of a bi-annual series to discuss how the continent should respond to demographic change. The Forum highlighted some of the dilemmas confronting the Commission as it tries to prod member states to address the challenges of demographic change in Europe.

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