Aliki Mouriki
Table 1: Overall, in 20 years’ time, would you say that people’s lives in your country will be better or
worse than today? Would you say that you are very or fairly confident in having a job in
2 year’s time?
EU-27 countries
|
COUNTRY |
% worse than today |
confidence in having a |
EPL strictness |
EU-15 members
|
Germany |
67.8 |
48 |
2.21 |
|
Greece |
66.9 |
37 |
2.83 |
|
France |
64.3 |
45 |
3.05 |
|
Luxembourg |
58.8 |
48 |
- |
|
Italy |
58.3 |
34 |
1.95 |
|
Belgium |
57.9 |
49 |
2.18 |
|
UK |
56.3 |
61 |
0.75 |
|
Austria |
55.6 |
58 |
1.94 |
|
Portugal |
53.2 |
39 |
3.46 |
|
Netherlands |
38.3 |
62 |
2.12 |
|
Spain |
37.4 |
43 |
3.05 |
|
Finland |
37.3 |
59 |
2.02 |
|
Sweden |
34.7 |
60 |
2.24 |
|
Denmark |
32.4 |
61 |
1.42 |
|
Ireland |
24.9 |
59 |
1.11 |
New members
|
Cyprus |
54.9 |
44 |
- |
|
Slovenia |
45.2 |
41 |
- |
|
Hungary |
37.9 |
33 |
1.52 |
|
Czech Rep. |
32.2 |
56 |
1.90 |
|
Malta |
22.8 |
39 |
- |
|
Poland |
22.6 |
29 |
1.74 |
|
Lithuania |
20.2 |
42 |
- |
|
Bulgaria |
19.9 |
27 |
- |
|
Latvia |
19.4 |
54 |
- |
|
Slovakia |
19.3 |
29 |
1.34 |
|
Romania |
17.1 |
40 |
- |
|
Estonia |
11.3 |
45 |
- |
Sources: Flash Eurobarometer no. 227, 2008 & Special Eurobarometer 26, 2006
OECD Stat Extracts, Dataset: Strictness of EPL —overall (version 1). Available online:
http://stats.oecd.org/wbos?Index.aspx?DatasetCode=EPL_OV
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