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Sid, well I must let you know, you evidently have not been informed by the e.u. commissars regime of Brussels about reality in Europe, in this that or the other European country! Thank's for letting me know! I'll explain here and now that a birth rate below zero means that the population decreases due to fewer births than decesses. In Italy, the number of children born is not enough for the population even to maintain the same level, and so the number of Italians decreases daily!
However, because the Italian government imports many young people from other continents and from eastern Europe, and an ever increasing number of children born in Italy are not Italian, this somehow keeps the overall population in that country just below the zero rate, meaning that it still decreases. But, if it were not for this mass immigration in Italy, the actual Italian population's birth-rate would be way below zero! In Italy, furthermore, the government regularly makes an amnesty allowing all illegal immigrants to remain and receive an identity card, and imposes that they must be given a job, even when this means tossing many Italians out of factories, or making sure that young Italians leaving school do not get a job.
It's sickening, Sid.