European countries are democracies. Change is incredibly slow and often incredibly resisted. You act as if European countries were lead by some philosopher kind

European countries are democracies. Change is incredibly slow and often incredibly resisted. You act as if European countries were lead by some philosopher kinds in search of the perfect system. Look at how hard it was for German to reform its social system in 90/00s for example. And German was one of the countries that actually achieved significant reforms while many others didn't.