Greece announces €1.6bn relief package to tackle population decline

Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the country’s falling fertility rates ‘national threat’. Photograph: Achilleas Chiras/EPA

Greece has announced drastic measures, including tax breaks and other financial incentives, to address a population decline that is on course to make it the oldest nation in Europe.

The prime minister said the €1.6bn (£1.4bn) relief package had been dictated by one of the biggest challenges facing the Mediterranean nation : a demographic crisis of unprecedented scale.