Sure, you can go ahead and re-publish my comments where ever and whenever you please. You might have to proofread them though, since English is not my native language.

And I'd like to have a look at those "gloomy assessments that the population won't ever recover", because I completely agree with that. There is no realistic way Western Europe's population could recover under today's circumstances. That would take at least 100 years, nut there are no 100 years left.

The combination of the faster generational change of the people with lower education and the influx of those people into the welfare systems makes this enterprise impossible. The breeding age of a normal middle class European woman has continuously gone up in the past 50 years, and the fact of the matter is this: If a middle class woman decides to break this rule and to start breeding in her early 20s instead of finishing her studies, then she will no longer belong to the middle class.