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| | | | By 2050, 30% of Europeans will be over the age of 65 – and reasearch indicates we will need 23.5% more care workers to help us deal with old age. The continent's workforce is currently nowhere near large enough to cater for its aging population. An answer, therefore, lies in migrant labour. This is the reality behind immigration into Europe, regardless of the vitriolic political positioning that so often characterises the debate. In an assessment of the mismatch between supply and demand, we learn that we are going to have to adapt our thinking about our workforces if we're to cope with the challenge ahead. One would hope that an American president would be acquainted with the events of the Great Depression, especially when they set economic policy. Were Donald Trump slightly more historically-minded, he may have learnt some lessons from a period in which extreme protectionism made an already dire situation far worse, triggering massive inflation, job losses and geopolitical tensions. Here, then, is a reminder of that dark period. It has been ten years since the Pope wrote to bishops calling for the Catholic church to do better on environmental issues. The Laudato Si' encylical, which criticised over-consumption and irresponsible growth, has been called an ecological turning point for the church. And the author of this analysis thinks it's worth a re-read now. Researchers in Sweden have been concerned about what happens to fish when rivers become polluted with drugs, including antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication. We pass these chemicals into waste water and then forget about them but an experiment involving salmon has shown that this is far from the end of the story. The researchers found that salmon were more likely to complete their migration journeys when they had human sedatives in their bloodstreams. They also completed their migrations faster than sober fish. That might sound like a good thing but you can find out why it really isn't in this write-up of their work. |  | Laura Hood Senior Politics Editor, London | |  Zuzanna Marciniak-Nuqui, RAND Europe; Joanna Hofman, RAND Europe Across the EU, nearly 10% of long-term care workers are foreign-born. | | |  Deniz Torcu, IE University The Great Depression proved that protectionism and high tariffs don't work. | |  Bernard Laurent, EM Lyon Business School Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si', was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the Catholic Church and its concern with the Earth back into a leading role. |  Jack Brand, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Michael Bertram, Stockholm University Pharmaceutical pollution can significantly affect wild animal behaviour, including speeding up salmon migration. | |  Alisa van de Haar, Leiden University The discovery sheds new light on 17th-century literary, political and libertine culture. | | | | | -
Ángel Esteban del Campo, Universidad de Granada The Peruvian Nobel prize-winning author was intensely committed to his craft. -
Beatriz Carpallo Porcar, Universidad San Jorge; Rita Galán Díaz, Universidad San Jorge Balance tells us more than anything else about elderly people's physical health. -
Anne C. Witt, EDHEC Business School Google's antitrust worries are piling up in the US and in Europe. But the Trump administration isn't pleased with EU regulatory efforts. -
Alexander F Santillo, Lund University; Cassandra Wannan, The University of Melbourne; Dhamidhu Eratne, The University of Melbourne Study suggests accelerated brain ageing is a factor in the development of schizophrenia – and can be measured using a simple blood test. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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