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Post by Idéfix Thu May 31, 2012 1:08 pm

ONCE in a while an opinion poll throws up an insight that is very revealing; yesterday it was the Pew Global survey of European countries. Among the usual questions about attitudes to the euro and the European Union, people in eight nations (Britain, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Greece, Italy, Poland and Spain) were asked which country in the European Union is the hardest-working. The Greeks ignored the obvious answer (Germany) and instead nominated themselves. (The other seven nations all plumped for Germany, as the table shows.)

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http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/05/greeks-say-they-are-hardest-working-european-nation?fsrc=gn_ep
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Post by Merlot Daruwala Fri Jun 01, 2012 1:52 am

Haha @ the Greeks.
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Post by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:20 am

Merlot Daruwala wrote:Haha @ the Greeks.

If only the Turks had been part of Euro....

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Post by Merlot Daruwala Fri Jun 01, 2012 2:21 am

Hey, don't knock the Turks. They are the ones who do all the physically demanding, menial jobs in Germany.
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Post by Idéfix Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:47 am

Merlot Daruwala wrote:Hey, don't knock the Turks. They are the ones who do all the physically demanding, menial jobs in Germany.
And their economy is going great guns. They are thoroughly enjoying Greece's discomfiture.
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Post by Marathadi-Saamiyaar Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:19 pm

Merlot Daruwala wrote:Hey, don't knock the Turks. They are the ones who do all the physically demanding, menial jobs in Germany.

You missed the point. If the Turks had been listed, then the Greeks would have picked Turkey instead of Italy as the worst country (and vice versa).

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