But this is a problem all over Europe. You could say it's worse in Italy than it is in the Netherlands, but even in the Netherlands politics are on a serious co

But this is a problem all over Europe. You could say it's worse in Italy than it is in the Netherlands, but even in the Netherlands politics are on a serious collision course with reality. I can't think of a single country where they have the labor they need, certainly not high-skilled but low-skilled is a problem too. Mostly the problem is pay, or to put it another way, you cannot make enough money of low-skilled labor to pay decent wages, which results in no available labor. Something needs to give. Either we need a housing crash serious enough that historic city centers see across the board drops in rent, or we need serious tax cuts. And that points out another problem: people have the idea that they have seriously lost quality of life in the past 10 years. I think they're right in most respects, from housing to medical care to pensions, but of course it's more nuanced than just that. People want a big change in politics everywhere, it's just that that mostly means different things in different countries (although extreme-right is profiting everywhere). I'm kind of afraid of extreme-right getting an outright majority in a big European country in the next set of elections. Wherever this goes, it doesn't seem like it's much a Brexit problem.