HOLIDAY LEAGUE
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLWITH the summer holiday season in full swing, hold those calls to Stockholm: the Swedes have more time off than other Europeans, Germany's IW economic institute has claimed. In an international survey of holidays taken by workers in 2003 in 14 western European countries, the Cologne-based think tank said Sweden was closely followed by the Netherlands (31 days) and Denmark (30 days). At the other end of the vacation-table are the Greeks, defying the lazy Mediterranean stereotype with 23 days holiday on average and, hardest working of all, the ...
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