[Jorge]

You see Mr. Jorge should learn a little bit before answering so harsh. He probably thinks there are just four countries in Western Europe. UK, France, Germany and Italy. Its true that the big European countries are underperforming, but there are many mid sized and smaller countries that perform pretty good.

Who cares about GDP per capita for a few little countries in Europe?
The GDP of the ENTIRE European Union ( what is it, 25 nations?) just barely surpases that of ONE NATION, the United States of America.
That's pretty pathetic.

My point was that the US affords more of the so-called finer things of European culture to far more of it's own citizens than any country in Europe could ever hope to.

[tomjohn77]

I care about those numbers since I live in on of those countries and NOT in Germany, Italy, UK or France. To me their lifestyle does matter what matter is how I live in my own independent non EU country. Actually I would rather live in small country than a big one. The country I like the most is actually Luxembourg. With great medieval castles just like from fairy tales.