a new Pew Research Center analysis of 11 Western European countries has found. But in a few other countries studied, the middle-class shares are decreasing even as incomes overall are rising.

After decades of living comfortably in Spain’s upper middle class ... Europe’s public sector have mostly used them to dodge protections for permanent employees. In Spain alone, 90 percent of ...

Poland's middle class is among the largest in Europe, with around 60 percent of the population classified within this group, according to recent studies. The criteria for being considered middle class ...