happiness

If you're happy and you know it

If you're happy and you know it

Answering the question ‘how do you measure happiness in Europe’ is a tricky one; there’s been no end to surveys, polls and graphs. For example, little will ever be rotten in the state of Denmark according to the infamous results of one survey in the mid-noughties. Reaching beyond the feasibility of statistics, cafebabel.com’s citizen journalists have opted to share the happiness they have at hand, which is synonymous with pan-European experiences of travel, having company and celebrating the non-traditional. In this week’s special edition, happiness is not just a topic restricted to the girls. Read the profiles of a Mediterranean boy and girl who charted very different courses to ‘happiness’ through travel. Or learn how to laugh, even at something as melancholy as a break-up (Image: (cc) Pink Sherbet Photography/ Flickr)

REVIEW happiness : Denmark 2011 Oscar for In A Better World - but not a very Danish movie

Denmark 2011 Oscar for In A Better World - but not a very Danish movie

Susanne Bier’s ‘Hævnen’ is a story about blood, thirst and justice and the hard realities of life. But how did a movie about such dark subjects come out of Denmark, the country with the happiest people on earth?

by Juliane Dybkjær @ // 03/03/11

happiness, doctors, children, film review, violence, oscars, island

PANORAMA happiness : 18, 648 ‘legal’, industrial deaths in Europe

18, 648 ‘legal’, industrial deaths in Europe

'Produce, consume, die’: the soundtrack for European industrial casualties is provided by eighties Italian punk group CCPP. For the third consecutive year, accidents and serious injuries are up by one quarter and a fifth respectively. Overview spanning Poland and Italy via the UK and India

by Mattia Bergamini @ // 09/12/08

happiness, labour, safety and security at work , health, best of cafebabel.com, europe, death

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