In 2010 we reported on
“The U-bend of Life”:
the evidence that people tend to be unhappiest in middle age. But new research finds that
one generation
is now unhappier than middle-aged and older people. Why is not quite clear—but today’s youth could become more miserable still as they age.
Since only France and Germany together can lead Europe, the two countries’ leaders need chemistry, something Emmanuel Macron never had with Olaf Scholz. Fortunately France’s president gets on better with Friedrich Merz, the current German chancellor. Both men think that, with America unpredictable, the world needs a stronger Europe. At the annual
Franco-German confab,
they must turn that into action. |