David Leonhardt reports on a fascinating poll conducted by the Pew Research Center. Highlights include:

• Across most of Europe Germany is considered to be the hardest working country and Greece the least.
• The exception is Greece which believes that Greece is the hardest working country and Italy the least.
• The Italians believe that the Romanians are the least hard working (but agree that the Germans are the most.)

To see all the results of what is a fascinating study, what this means for Europe, which country is considered the most corrupt, and why the argument about the Euro is really a disagreement about fairness, click here.

Source: The New York Times