Wow, interesting. Your analysis somewhat matches with a conversation I had here with a Spanish woman tourist some months ago. We were chatting casually about

Wow, interesting. Your analysis somewhat matches with a conversation I had here with a Spanish woman tourist some months ago. We were chatting casually about this and that, and then she said she was not looking forward to going back to Spain / Europe, after her trip. I asked her why. I don't remember the exact words she used, but from what she said, my recollection is that she had been experiencing a kind of general malaise in the environment in Europe from some time. Depressing. This also matches with some of the news articles I have been reading for sometime now about Europe.