Italy Plans to Reward Parents to Have 3rd Child; Would Grant Them Farmland to Raise Birth Rate

Italy is considering giving land to families who have a third child in a bid to reverse the country's declining birth rate, the Euro News website reports today (November 1, 2018).

The plan -- put forward by the far-right League party -- was included in the government's draft budget for next year.

Italy has the lowest birth rate in the European Union and it has been falling every year since 2010, according to Eurostat.

The parcel of agricultural land -- currently owned by the state -- would be granted to parents who have a third child between 2019 and 2021.