Press | FutuRes

Thank you for your interest in our work! The FutuRes Project connects Europe’s leading experts from demography, economics and social policy. All press communication for FutuRes is done by our project partner Population Europe, who are part of the Max Planck Society. For press inquiries and interview requests, please email Peter Weissenburger: weissenburger (at) demogr.mpg.de.

You can find some of the press appearances by our experts below.

“If you want demographic resilience, introduce policies for young people! Because if they are only going to have a reasonable salary when they are, let’s say, thirty-five, then that’s too late. Because of course the biological clock is ticking, no matter what.”

- FutuRes Head of Research Arnstein Aassve on "The Inquiry". He and Anna Rotkirch appeared on the BBC-programme in February 2024.

“The idealised life course is really at odds with female reproductive biology.”

- FutuRes researcher Anna Rotkirch is interviewed in the Financial Times

“FutuRes is an EU-funded research project challenging the familiar narrative that elderly people are a problem and that youth is the answer. [...]
After a century of failed birthrate policies, perhaps that’s the wisest course: to accept that the population pyramid is now inverted and draft policies that take account of that reality, rather than hope to reverse it.”

- Guardian reporter Tobias Jones about the FutuRes project

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