The Danes, happy people
The Gallup index for nations with most faith in the future puts Denmark top of the list, then Sweden, Canada and Australia. Are you surprised? Let’s take a closer look at this happy population: no regular full time jobs yet there is very little unemployment. Denmark protects the worker not his employment, this way it ha san agile and performing productive structure.
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Little Mermaid
Here in Italy is quite the opposite. But in the end might the defence of the famous Articolo 18 not go against the Italian workers? An article in the “Corriere della Sera” shows us the Danish Flexicurity , a forming system which lasts a whole life and help better ones professional skills year after year. It’s up to the worker then to play a good game with his abilities, and the facts prove that this does indeed happen. Because Denmark has resisted this crises a lot better than the rest of Europe.
Is this enough to make us suspect that a full time job in the Italian way of seeing things doesn’t work? There is another aspect to be considered: young people and women. That’s the point, women. My friend Alfredo Tesio says << the Danes are happy because theirs is a woman nation >>
Helle Thorning Schmidt
Head of the oldest dynasty in Europe is Queen Margrethe, head of the youngest government in Europe is Helle, 45 year old, called the “redhead” or “the Gucci” because she prefers to dress Italian.
According to a Unesco study Denmark is the nation which is most liveable in Europe. << They have one of the fourth highest incomes per person in the world, even though after paying the taxes they slide down to 18th position >> says again Alfredo Tesio, for years correspondent from Italy for Danish newspapers and radio.
That’s true the Danes pay up to 50% of taxes on their income but they pay all of them, tax evasion s just 5%and the whole welfare system works perfectly; hospitals, schools, universities are all free.
So shall we carry on in the old Italian way, or is it worth looking for an alternative?