Greece is currently experiencing what Brussels would probably call a “demographic transformation”. However, it is actually a creeping population collapse that is taking place there. Hundreds of schools are closing because there are simply no more children. What remains are empty classrooms, dying villages and the realisation that a nation without young people will extinguish itself.
Source: Report24.news Heinz Steiner, 6. September 2025
A country that has no more children doesn’t need schools. What is currently happening in Greece is nothing other than the silent disappearance of entire local communities – and not because a natural disaster has destroyed villages, but because there are simply no more pupils. The Ministry of Education itself speaks of an “Armageddon” and the figures are as clear as they are devastating: within just seven years, the number of pupils has plummeted by over 150,000
When 721 schools no longer open their doors in the coming school year, they will not simply be empty buildings, but memorials to a society that is collapsing. Primary schools and nursery schools are particularly affected. Anyone who thinks that these are just small mountain villages is very much mistaken – even in the greater Athens area, kindergardens are disappearing from the map in droves. In Attica alone, 77 facilities are being shut down, 73 of which are pre-schools.
The official rule is merciless: if there are fewer than 15 pupils, there are no teachers; if there are fewer than 15 pupils, there is simply no school. And if this number is not reached for three years, the facility is cancelled for good. This means that children sometimes have to travel up to 80 kilometres a day to attend school somewhere. For remote islands or mountain regions, this means nothing other than families disappearing altogether – after all, who wants to bring up their child in such conditions?
What is happening here is the most visible symptom of a demographic catastrophe that is afflicting Europe not only in Greece. Falling birth rates, the emigration of young people abroad, an ageing society – all of this is now eating deep into the foundations of the nation. While the political elites rant about “sustainability” and “diversity” (they would prefer to settle tens of millions of migrants), their own communities and traditions are dying out. The closure of schools is only the most visible sign of decay.
And it is a decline that seems unstoppable. Because a country that loses its children loses its future. What is happening in Greece right now is therefore nothing less than the slow death of a nation that no longer has any children. The nation that once produced greats such as Pythagoras, Socrates, Homer and Plato is slowly but surely extinguishing itself. Europe’s nations finally need goals again and a belief in a future worth living – real goals, not surreal, far-left fantasies far removed from reality.
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