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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 7:12 am Post subject: EU citizens are officially happy: poll Mon Feb 26, 11:57 AM |
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EU citizens are officially happy: poll Mon Feb 26, 11:57 AM ET
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union citizens are overwhelmingly happy with life -- and that's official.
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A pan-European opinion poll conducted for the European Commission and published on Monday showed that 87 percent of EU citizens considered themselves happy, with a record 97 percent in Denmark.
Only in Bulgaria, which joined the bloc in January, did a majority of people (55 percent) say they were unhappy.
But the Eurobarometer survey on "European social reality," conducted between mid-November and mid-December, found far lower satisfaction levels with retirement and employment prospects.
And two-thirds of the 26,755 Europeans questioned think life will be more difficult for the next generation because of unemployment, the cost of living and uncertain pensions.
Citizens of Germany, Europe's biggest and most powerful economy, have the least confidence in the future of their pensions, with only 25 percent voicing confidence. Fewer than one-third of French, Poles and Hungarians trust their pensions.
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mithridates

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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:01 am Post subject: |
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Well, I guess this is as good as any a place to ask - can a Canadian become an EU citizen if they own a house in any of the EU countries and live there for a few years? Bulgaria has houses for $20,000 Euros, that's why. Just a thought. I'm not really going to Bulgaria. |
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:27 am Post subject: |
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mithridates wrote: |
Well, I guess this is as good as any a place to ask - can a Canadian become an EU citizen if they own a house in any of the EU countries and live there for a few years? Bulgaria has houses for $20,000 Euros, that's why. Just a thought. I'm not really going to Bulgaria. |
It is hard to be the citizen of a EU country unless you are lucky to find a Canadian girl whose parents were from Europe and she's eligible for citizenship or she has Irish grandparents and can prove it, she can find a way to become an Irish citizen. It is pretty tough to be an EU citizen. |
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