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.
Yet full-throated drooling idiocy is not confirmed by these results:
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.
Still, there's no reason why worry about the unsustainable comfortable lifestyle should interfere with their happiness now. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
Happy Europeans will still be alive when that more difficult next generation arrives. That is the European social reality.
My, are the Europeans in for an unpleasant shock.
