The safest countries in the world are in East Asia; there's no country in Western Europe where you can leave your wallet on the table in a major city and not worry about it being stolen.
>Stable Economy: Check.
It's stable in the sense that for most of western Europe (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece) GDP per capita now is no higher than it was 10 years ago. One of the few places in the world where people's material standard of living is no longer improving every year.
Those are individual countries doing great (some not so great, some economies bankrupted etc, but still)
I asked about the brussels bubble. Only the privacy laws are relevant. I can't say that it made a dent to our overall privacy, since our tech is US based and we have no idea where our data really are.
Typically, those stats usually showcase countries which are NOT in the EU: Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland. And anyway, European countries were like that before the EU.
Denmark, together with Greenland but not the Faroe Islands, became a member of what is now the European Union, but negotiated certain opt-outs, such as retaining its own currency, the krone.
And Iceland is part of the European Economic Area (EEA)
