Helsinki (27.02.2007 / edited 01.03.2007 - Juhani Artto) When asked "does your job require you to keep learning new things", 88 per cent of Finns replied YES. In Denmark the rate was 84 per cent, in the Netherlands 81 per cent. France, Sweden and Malta scored 80 per cent. These are some of the results in the survey European Social Reality, released on Monday by the European Commission. The survey, by Eurobarometer, was conducted between mid-November and mid-December 2006. Hungary scored 41 per cent and came last on the EU-25 list. Bulgaria and Romania, EU Member States since 1 January 2007, scored 42 and 52 per cent. The EU-25 average was 71 per cent. The need, at work, to keep learning new things seems to stress Finns relatively little, as only 25 per cent of the respondents in Finland agreed with the statement "My work is too demanding and stressful". A lower rate was recorded only in the Netherlands (24 per cent). The EU-25 average was 41 per cent. Lithuania, scoring 71 per cent, and Greece, scoring 70 per cent, topped the EU-25 list. Also Bulgaria scored 70 per cent. In the survey, Finland tops also another list. 79 per cent of Finns replied positively to the statement "Our social welfare system could serve as a model for other countries". In Denmark the rate was 78 per cent, in France 73 per cent and in Belgium 70 per cent. At the bottom end of the list one finds Bulgaria (2 per cent), Portugal (5 per cent) and Latvia (6 per cent). Poland and Greece scored 8 per cent. The EU-25 average was 42 per cent. Read more:
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