http://www.institutmolinari.org/IMG/...en-eu-2018.pdf

Some interesting points on tax. Simple google searches show the rates etc. Unsure on average wages in these countries but many will probably be lower than UK. Quite a few do have tax free allowances, UK tax does not seem bad in comparison to many. Was surprised at France and Germany being so high tax wise!!

https://tradingeconomics.com/italy/y...mployment-rate
Italian youth unemployment rate, too high but in this thread or Brexit it stated a figure of nearly 50%

https://tradingeconomics.com/about-te.aspx Website address saying 'about us'. I can't take Wikipedia at face value with the number of errors in many pages, hence ignoring that particular site.