Citizens from the new member states are much less satisfied with their lives, have incomes in some cases ten times lower, and have much worse jobs than their counterparts in current EU countries.
These are some of the results from a new survey published today jointly by the European Foundation and the European Commission.
The report shows that, whilst almost 90 percent of people from the present EU 15 feel "very satisfied or fairly satisfied" with their lives, only two thirds of...
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