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cafebabel.com boys speak: what makes Europe’s twentysomething men happy
We girls probably think that macho attitudes, making money and succeeding are what make boys happy. After all, why is it so hard to get them to share on ‘happiness’? Apparently not. Winning a game, doing nothing, a tipple, the latest gadget, friends, girls - a pan-European select number of lads share what makes them smile – and why we girls are different. Vox-pop
vox-pop, health, alcohol, youth, men and women, love, travel
Beppe Grillo: ‘Italy is as little a country now as it was 150 years ago’
Giuseppe Piero Grillo, 62, is a national celebrity, blogger and comedian. The married father-of-six is probably the least likely of all 60 million Italians to party over Italy's 150th anniversary in 2011. After falling in disgrace with Italy's powerful media conglomerates, he was banned from national television in the mid-1980s. He now blogs and performs his comedy shows live across the country, and speaks exclusively to Bruno van den Elshout for cafebabel.com
vox-pop, italy, beppe grillo, best of cafebabel.com, politics
Vox-pop: European Egyptians on Mubarak protests
Five European leaders have called for an urgent transition of power in Egypt. 300 have died across the country over the last ten days, according to UN estimates. With 161 British Egyptians flown out of the north African country so far, four young voices from London, Manchester and Essex discuss their fears, roots and families
French, Spanish, Czech and British youth on euroscepticism
Unpaid interns, taxes, recycling, the parliament in Strasbourg...you name it, our contributors from across the cafebabel.com network have something to say about what irks them most about Europe. 9 May marks sixty years since the Schuman declaration was signed, when it was agreed that France, Germany and others would work together as a federation
vox-pop, european identity, money, enlargement, identity, euro, brussels
US election reactions: ‘sleeping a little better’ after the Obama win
From London to New York on 4 November, a selection of correspondents trace the historic night when Barack Obama became the first black president of the United States
vox-pop, john mccain, vote, washington, reactions, barack obama, times square
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