The happiest in the block were Danish citizens, with 97% of them stating they are happy. In turn the least happy European citizens were revealed to be Slovakians, at 10%, followed by Romanians at 9% and Bulgarians at 8%.

The latter two countries were not members of the EU when the survey was carried out between 17th November and 19th December in a bid to understand social realities of European Union citizens.

  94% of Maltese also felt they enjoyed a good quality of live, with a further 87% of interviewees claiming they were satisfied by their standard of living. The EU averages in concerning quality of life and standard of living were 83% and 86% respectively.

However Maltese confidence in the future of their pensions seems to be chipped with only 42% feeling confident about the income they will receive once they age. This trend mirrors that of the EU average, with the same percentage of citizens sharing the insecurity about the future of pensions.

Malta also seems to offer its citizen’s a high sense of security with 72% of the respondents saying they felt safe walking alone in their neighbourhood after dark. With 70% of the EU citizens sharing this outlook, the citizens who were found to feel the safest were Dutch at 88%. Lithuanians seem to be the most wary at venturing outdoors at night with only 45% of them saying they feel safe.

All Maltese interviewees also said that family comes above everything else in their lives, with respondents giving it 100% importance. Health, leisure time and friends followed closely at 99%, 90% and 88% respectively.

Malta was also found to share the most negative views about immigration in the EU, ranking a mean of 1.52 out of the European mean of 2.02.

In Malta the survey was carried out by Misco, involving the participation of 500 interviewees between the 17th November and the 12th Decmeber. It covers an array of the dimensions of social, economical, political and everyday life of the European citizens offering a great deal of information about life in the European Union at the end of 2006.