"FT": Depopulation threatens eastern Europe, including Poland
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According to UN data, the east of Europe has lost around 6 percent of the population since the 1990s, or around 18 million people.
“In democracy, numbers matter. When they change, power also changes frequently. Central and Eastern Europe witnessed this phenomenon,” Ivan Krastev, president of the Center for Liberal Strategies in the Financial Times wrote
He indicates that in 1939, almost one-third of Poland's population were people who were not ethnic Poles (there were German, Jewish, Ukrainian and other minorities). And today ethnic Poles constitute 95 percent of Polish citizens. However, these trends began to reverse. In his opinion, to cope with this growing diversity, central and eastern European societies will have to learn what many of them still see as the greatest lesson of the 20th century - that ethnic and cultural diversity is more of a threat than an advantage.
