The European Union is becoming the world’s “quality of life” superpower
https://thinkeuropa.dk/notat/2025-10-the-european-union-is-becoming-the-worlds-quality-of-life-superpower
by LordAnubis12
The European Union is becoming the world’s “quality of life” superpower
https://thinkeuropa.dk/notat/2025-10-the-european-union-is-becoming-the-worlds-quality-of-life-superpower
by LordAnubis12
35 comments
Europe was always the best place to live!
Yes, but we must preserve it, economically, politically and socially, and even militarily, we must improve all of that to preserve these achievements!
I often think this is a much neglected aspect of working and living in Europe and something we don’t take enough advantage of when trying to pull in corporations and talent to work here.
Quality of life has decreased in Romania. We have the highest prices for necessities compared to salaries.
Wouldn’t swap it with any other place.
i think its true that Europe is better place to live in.
But.
widening gap in GDP and GDP per capita, contraction of jobs, loosing competition at some areas to China, some others to US – this all is very likely to change situation in the future. GDP does matter, because it’s money, and such things as “quality of life” is hard to measure and it depends on how you define this
First regulatory super power, now that EU has been bullied out of some regulations there is the invention of quality of life superpower. Next when money runs out for social programs, we will be an ethical super power. All nonsensical terms invented by Brussels to make themselves feel better.
Yeah, let’s pretend that Europe is not falling behind US and China, that most countries are not raising their retiring age and that many economies are not in risk of recession. We’ll eventually lose this “quality of life” with this coping mentality
The EU is becoming the world’s **boomers**’ quality of life superpower…. not so for any other following generations
Where else can you get that kind of pension! Lol
Am I supposed to pretend that the american me with 3x my salary somehow has a worse life?
For old people in western europe – sure.
What is the point of this forum? Europe is in danger of collapsing.
Of course Europe leads in basic quality of life, but to achieve that it’s bankrupting itself and is completely dependent on outside forces. No more energy/resource production, low salaries leading to brain drain. Bringing in massive amounts of incompatible immigrants to fix low birth rates.
Quality of life will drop.
Isn’t it achieved by sacrificing new generation of Europeans, since maintaining social welfare state becomes more and more costly, thus, young people will see some sharp decline in QoL later?
Very convenient to fantasize about the present, being oblivious of the future.
TBF, that was only the case because the US provided security through military strength and the EU was manufacturing powerhouse due to cheap and reliable energy sources. Now with the drastic increase in military spending, and reduced exports, manufacturing capabilities, topped on by the migrant crisis where some are not integrating well and potential cuts to social welfare, I expect that to change in the near future.
So, basically, a really big retirement home.
That’s nothing to be proud of.
This is hilarious the absolute circlejerk of this article. People celebrating themselves meanwhile, Eurosceptic party have never been higher in the poll.
Trying to push mass surveillance through for the umpteenth time has put a dent into that for me.
Delusional
Corpos need you to work 996. Look at how happy americans and chinese are with their jobs!
Lol what? 70% of wages going to rent? Quality of life for rent seekers, maybe, but i’m sure those people have it good everywhere.
Not for long. Our fucking oligarch wannabe billionaire fellater politicians are working very hard to destroy out quality of life forever for temporary profit. They see the US as an instruction manual, not a cautionary tale.
“Quality of life superpower” is almost as frivolous as Sweden’s “moral superpower”.
Every country can find a niche and claim superpower status.
Morocco, the Potassium superpower.
I do too enjoy the insanely high taxes and (compared to the US) very low salaries..
I feel the quality of my life so much, I will never have a house, I can’t sleep because the laws don’t protect me from noisy neighbour, and everybody hates my country…
Last year it was “regulatory superpower.”
Those are great and all… but making it a superpower descriptor is lame.
If I could choose a place to ‘spawn’, 100% my choice. Life is good.
Ha, come live in Ireland. To quote Star Wars “The Republic doesn’t exist out here.” We have all the trappings of Europe (higher life expectancy, better quality of life) but it’s always for those who can afford it. None of the cross border train schemes apply here (still struggling to come up to par with other EU transport systems), when you try to order products, French and German don’t ship here (too damn expensive), our healthcare is a joke (despite EU directives for a standard of quality of care), and our government is run on whatever watchword comes down from Brussels. Other EU countries treat these watchwords as guidelines, ours treats it as gospel and yet we decide everything by parish pump politics.
Ugh, rant over. Seriously, I’m not begrudging anyone anything, just the reality Irish people face. And I haven’t even spoken about how my fellow kin have it in Northern Ireland (getting better but still woefully underfunded, the whole politics of the place) and their parish pump politics make the antics down south look convivial by comparison.
Another bunch of Capitalists slapping each other on the backs after reducing living standards some more.
Seriously. Don’t they ever get tired of it all.
Can you explain this to my ISP, employer or landlord, please? Because I don’t really have a really good quality of life. I can’t even afford holiday.
Won’t last long if people keep electing wanna be fascist and right wing parties.
Hell even if they are not it won’t last long if the left gets a hold and reforms itself.
Sure if compared to America.
Not if compared to other high quality of life countries.
Europe is now doing what Canada always did. Benchmarking the US. Its not a good thing. You should aim higher.
Ageing infrastructure, rampant crime, high taxes and poor service – sounds like a great quality of life.
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