Franco Debono, you are not alone

Malta’s Commissioner for Law Reform, who is 43, has been dating the same woman for the last 15 years, but still lives with his parents and sleeps in his childhood bedroom with his canaries on the roof, will be happy to find consolation in the fact that he is not alone.

Look at this chart on Bloomberg, which is based on Eurostat figures. As anybody could have predicted, Italy and Malta are right at the top for mamma’s boys who won’t leave home. But as couldn’t have been predicted (I mean, who knew?), they’re beaten by Slovakia and Croatia.

Another fascinating piece of information to emerge from these statistics is that, right across Europe, men stay in the parental home far, far longer than their sisters do.