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 ...

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.

If America’s spending continues to look more and more like that of Europe, U.S. tax policy will also need to shift. In European countries, lower-income and middle-class taxpayers pay an average ...

Not only does the definition of a middle-class salary and lifestyle vary among countries, but the existence of a safety net makes life in Europe more affordable. Here, two families from other ...

But that made little difference when he took the fatal decision to risk it all by crossing the sea for a new life in Europe ... but they increasingly carry middle class Tunisians, sometimes ...