Born and raised in EU South, I grew up looking up to Northern Europe with regards to their efficiency, values, etc. This is news I'd expect to hear from a back

Born and raised in EU South, I grew up looking up to Northern Europe with regards to their efficiency, values, etc. This is news I'd expect to hear from a backwater country I'd never heard off. But I'm afraid it is just yet one data point of how wrong I was and how bad things have gone in the heart of EU and maybe the whole western world.