23.4% of EU households had children in 2025

The EU is publishing its own demographic autopsy as a neutral dataset, completely ignoring that a 6.3% decline in couple-with-children households over a decade is a civilizational trajectory marker, not a trend line to be ranked by country like GDP figures. The 19.2% surge in childless single-person households represents the exact opposite of what an aging bloc needs: more workers, more families, more children to fund the pension Ponzi that Europe's political class refuses to name. This is pure institutional cope — release the data, avoid the implications, let each member state draw their own conclusions while Brussels maintains strategic ambiguity about the fact that the EU is running out of Europeans to sustain itself.