The 2021 edition of EPRS’s annual 'Demographic Outlook for the European Union' focuses not only on continued recent trends - such as an ageing population, lower fertility rates and a shrinking working-age population - but also looks at their implications for policy at European and national levels.
This EPRS policy roundtable will explore the study's findings in the light of the on-going coronavirus crisis, asking whether and how far recent patterns are being shifted by the pandemic, not least in its well-reported impact on life-expectancy. The discussion will include experts from the OECD, Population Europe, the Cabinet of the Commission Vice-President for Democracy and Demography, and the Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), as well as from EPRS itself.