“…Thus, the French have projected that between 2000 and 2039 they might have to recruit between 165,000 and 315,000 new immigrants annually to prevent a decline in the active population. 14 The Front National, the Vlaams Blok, and the FPO were among the first parties to draw a connection between falling birth rates and foreign immigration. In their propaganda pamphlets the Front National graphically connects rising immigration, an increase in the number of mosques, and "empty cradles" to drive home their message that there is "a great risk that we will no longer be able to pay our pensions and, above all, that we will see disappear our thousand-year old identity and the French people itself."…”