A Greek flag hangs inside a house, whose owners live abroad, in the village of Ormenio, in the remote crop-growing area bordering Turkey and Bulgaria, northeastern Greece, March 29, 2024. Greece's fertility rate is one of the lowest in Europe, so the government is planning in May to unveil new measures to boost birthrates such as cash benefits for families, affordable housing for young people, financial incentives for assisted reproduction, and incorporating migrants into the workforce, but the full size and cost of the plan is not yet clear. "If I were to tell you that any given minister at any given ministry ... can reverse the trend, it would be a lie," Sofia Zacharaki, Greece's minister for social cohesion and family affairs, said. "We need to keep trying." REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki
