EU and East Asia: labour, pensions, military recruiting.
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The EU working-age population shrinks every year. South Korea, Japan, Italy hit unsustainable pension thresholds without reform. Military recruiting becomes a strategic constraint (Bundeswehr, Romanian Armed Forces). Couples with inflation via wage pressure. olivLaw ingests the Eurostat labour-market series (employment, unemployment, job vacancies, labour cost); population series come next.