{"id":117590,"date":"2025-09-04T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117590\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:35:11","slug":"elon-musk-warns-of-greeces-death-amid-school-closures-the-greek-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/117590\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk warns of Greece\u2019s &#8216;death&#8217; amid school closures \u2013 The Greek Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has sounded an alarm over Greece\u2019s demographic crisis after reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/greekherald.com.au\/news\/over-760-schools-to-close-as-greece-faces-demographic-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">766 schools will shut this year due to dwindling student numbers<\/a>. Sharing the news on X, he wrote \u201cthe death of Greece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Education Minister Sofia Zacharaki admitted classrooms \u201creflect the state of our maternity wards and birth rates, which have been falling for decades.\u201d <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The death of Greece <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zZt4Unl7rQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/zZt4Unl7rQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1962901849172029859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 2, 2025<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Primary school enrolments have dropped by more than 111,000 since 2018, a 19% decline.<\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s fertility rate is just 1.35, with many women having children later in life. <\/p>\n<p>Experts say the closures, mostly in rural areas, underscore the difficulty of reversing decades of population decline.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk has sounded an alarm over Greece\u2019s demographic crisis after reports that 766 schools will shut this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-117590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}