The problem in a nutshell, literally

The American historian Michael Lind observes that a society has to provide for its biological and cultural perpetuation and be capable of defeating and deterring its enemies. Today every European country fails on that count, producing too few children and failing to integrate its immigrants in a way necessary to perpetuate the culture of the host nation.
Europe may not produce failed states like Somalia or Sierra Leone, but are they failed societies – shrinking, self sterilising, lacking martial courage and communal cohesion.
Why then is the commission taking five EU countries to court for failing to charge the requisite 15 percent VAT on nappies. Europe’s yuoung people need every incentive they can get to have more children. Let us hope there will be no further action against Hungary, Malta, Poland, Portugal and the Czech Republic, who were sent a "letter of formal notice" by the commission on 18 July for charging a mere 5 percent VAT on their nappy products, and that the commission reviews its VAT policies in a family friendly manner next year. That might be a small way toward addressing Lind’s diagnosis, although as many saloon bar demographers are aware, much, much more needs to be done.