Will the Summer Never End? Is It the Only Problem the European Union Faces?

We still have problems in Europe regarding the climate, energy, homelessness and, of course, we are becoming poor. Having a house, moreover the one equipped with air conditioners is expensive and everything costs more and more.

These problems are intertwined with one another, but the people do not see that the problem is getting bigger.

In Italy, we only think about the holidays and good days relaxing before we come to the cities, but also in the little towns, the prices are higher and the methods for avoiding the climate are lower, the beaches are full, and the water is hot. In the mountains, it is also hot, and the prices are really high due to the prices of gas and diesel.

To get the food to the mountains, cars have to pay a lot for the fuel, making the prices higher.

We can see how the rivers around Europe are getting dry and nobody thinks about how to use the conditioner inside the house, making the problem bigger.

We live day by day confused by the news and the messages that we see on the TV channels or by the reels on social media.

We are not thinking about the problems that are about having a job, getting well paid.

Most of the jobs available are the same as 50 years ago, and people are still thinking about buying land and build a house cutting the trees without any respect to the environment. In Europe, the regulations about are more and more, but it creates only a caste that know how to beat the system.

And many of the other Europeans are facing a lack of professional jobs, as I wrote before.

Of course, this trend is getting worse fast as the energy crisis deepens, and it seems to be far from an end yet.

The policies to answer the questions and bring clean energy to the cities are moving but not really fast as the climate changes.

Are those funds really used to cover all the needs of the population regarding energy?

It is already clear that we consume more energy than we produce.

In another article, I wrote about how many people in Europe have big problems when it comes time to buy a house, and how many of the big cities are getting so expensive due to tourism that it is impossible for young people to buy a house, and we can see how most of the houses in the center of the cities are belonged to the rich people that are making more money with the short-term rentals, it is one problem that many people are seeing the house where they live, buying from the big companies and losing the places where to life without any possibility to find another place to live for the expensive prices for rent and worse to buy, the ranking of the homeless people in Europe is getting bigger, we saw how in Milan the queue for getting some food by "Pane quotidiano" are longer and many of that people staying long time to have some food, they said that for them the money is for rent and leaving nothing for food.

Homeownership has become not only a distant dream but an impossibility for millions of Europeans. Depending on which European country we're talking about, home purchase prices are anywhere from 7 to 12 times the annual salary. And that's, of course, before taxes. So imagine how few Europeans will actually have the financial means, the possibility to save up for a down payment for their own home. It's almost impossible, practically impossible in 2026. In fact, in some capitals, talking about Western European nations, home prices are even higher and have gone up disproportionately over the past number of years, depending on the statistics we're analyzing and some European metropolitans, middle class and working-class people need to save 15 or 20 years just to afford a down payment for their home, not the full purchase price. Imagine this 15 or 20 years. Hardworking, good people that are just middle-class people. They can no longer afford to purchase a home in their own city. They've been priced out of their own real estate market. Incredibly unbelievable what's happening in major European metropolitan areas in 2026. Now, saving up 10, 15, or 20 years for the down payment of my home is actually not that big of a deal. Well, that's because you haven't really factored in personal income taxes yet, Personal income taxes. If you're a decent person, you're going to pay anywhere from the low end. I would say 27% and on the high end, 50-55% on personal income taxes. And if you take a look at how much the government has taken away from you, you can totally understand why it's impossible for you to afford a normal medium-sized home in Europe today.

Europeans are getting poorer in 2026 because they can't save anything. If you can't save anything, it doesn't matter how much you earn, you're always going to be poor.