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SOCIALLY
French women will have less kids than the immigrant women.

CULTURALLY
If the pro-natalist policy established or a future one established is successful, then we will see a larger increase of birth rates and due to increasing immigration in France we would see a more culturally diverse France.

ECONOMICALLY
We predict that the Economy will decrease as the population increases because of the Immigrant women having more children, therefore more money is being used.

**POLITICALLY** France may have to implement a stronger pro-natalist policy as the CBR in France are beginning to drop. The majority of the increase of births in 1980 and 2007 are from immigrant women giving birth. It it statistically proven that foreign women living in France have more children than the average French woman. The president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy is planning to overhaul pensions and to also raise the retirement age, from 60-62. By doing that, the government says it will save 70 billion euros by 2018 if they can raise the age to 62, the qualification to 41.5 years and the pension age to 67.

**ENVIRONMENTALLY** Environmentally, France will change because their plans will be to measure its total greenhouse gas emissions and its carbon footprint, including the “imported” CO2 footprint resulting from trade. More that will be calculated is the energy and resource use per inhabitant, resource productivity, sectoral waste generation, agricultural/industrial waste and the recycling rate.

DEMOGRAPHICALLY
We think the France Population is going to eventually increase because of the increasingly large immigration population. The pro-natalist legislation passed by France is working as immigrant women in France are giving more births than the average French woman. Although, predictions state that France’s population is expected to decrease as it is in Stage four of the DTM. And we personally think that the population will stay relatively stay stable unlike other European countries as France has a relatively large population of immigrants as well as a successful pro-natalist policy.