Hotel in Poland launches initiative to boost birth rates

Free Christening parties are being offered to couples who conceive during their stay at a hotel chain in Poland.

There’s more – each employee will be paid a bonus of over €2,000 for every child they have.

That’s an initiative launched by Polish hotel chain Arche and its 73-year-old owner in an effort to boost the country’s low birth rates.

Poland’s fertility rate of 1.2 children per woman in 2023 is among the weakest in the EU, with only Malta, Spain and Lithuania behind it.

To discuss, Seán is joined by Raphael Minder, the Financial Times’ Central Europe Correspondent.