'Crude, but rarely nasty': The jokes Europeans tell about their neighbours

‘What’s the difference between the Swedes and the Finns? The Swedes have got nice neighbours’. Or so the joke goes. Photograph: Chesnot/Getty Images Europe is the migrant crisis, the Greek crisis, the euro crisis. It is the CAP, Ecofin and Eurostat. It is Schengen suspended, anti-Europeans on the march, and the imminent threat of Brexit.