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Collective Funk Settles on Italy

EU's unhappiest people disillusioned with nation's future

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 13, 2007 8:52 PM CST

(Newser) – Italy is in a bad mood, and people from Venice to Naples are worried the current “malessere”—or “malaise—will never lift. On the heels of a Cambridge poll showing Italians to be the unhappiest folks in Europe, Ian Fisher of the... Read full story »

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