Together Magazine | Europe warned of “demographic tsunami rolling towards us”

Welcome though it is, greater longevity throughout Europe is creating “massive unfairness”. Ageing is beginning to destroy Europe’s social structures and threaten the continent’s political stability, according to its British-born author. It also, says Giles Merritt, raises “uncomfortable questions” about social justice and the “looming bankruptcy of pension funds” in the years ahead. In Timebomb: When Ageing Explodes, published on 27 May, Merritt sounds an important warning that, unless Europe defuses “ageing’s explosive force”, within two decades its societies will be “devastated by it.”