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When I’m thinking about my future I cannot say for sure what it will be like. Many of teenagers do not know what they want to become.  But I am sure that the most important things for me in future will be my profession and family. My opinion is that good education is necessary to get a good job. Profession is a very important choice that will define all of my future life. I am glad that my parents support me.

I’m going to enter university after graduation from school. I want to become an economist and to work in bank. I know that nowadays there are many economists who cannot get a job. But as for me, I really have great interest and talent for Mathematics and economics; also I am a hard-working and responsible person that’s why I hope I will manage to succeed. High-qualified specialists are always needed.

What’s more I want to have my own family in future. You cannot go far without true close person you love beside you. I’m planning to have kids and to live in my own apartments. As for our family now is rather big but our flat is small enough and also it’s on the eighth floor I cannot have a pet. But I love dogs very much. So, in my future life I will surely have one, because a dog is like a real friend.

Of course I hope I’ll have possibility to travel and to meet interesting people in future. I want to drive a car. Now it sounds like a dream but these are things I want to have and to do. I am sure that plans begin from dreams. And I hope that my future holds a lot of nice surprises for me!

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Когда я размышляю о своем будущем, я не могу сказать наверняка, каким оно будет. Многие подростки не знают, кем они хотят стать. Но я уверен, что самыми важными вещами для меня в будущем будут семья и работа. Мое мнение – хорошее образование необходимо для того, чтобы устроиться на хорошую работу. Профессия – это очень важный выбор, который определяет всю будущую жизнь. Я рад, что мои родители поддерживают меня.

Я собираюсь поступить в университет после окончания школы. Я хочу стать экономистом и работать в банке. Я знаю, что многие экономисты сейчас не могут найти работу. Однако, у меня действительно есть огромный интерес и к математики и экономике. Кроме того, я трудолюбивый и ответственный человек, поэтому я надеюсь, что добьюсь успеха. Высококвалифицированные специалисты всегда нужны.

Более того, я хочу иметь свою семью в будущем. Далеко не уйдешь без верного и близкого человека, которого ты любишь, рядом. Я планирую иметь детей и жить в собственном доме. Так как сейчас наша семья довольно большая ,а наша квартира маленькая и находится на 8 этаже, я не могу завести домашнее животное. А я очень люблю собак. В будущем у меня обязательно будет собака – ведь она настоящий друг.

Конечно, я надеюсь, что у меня будет возможность путешествовать и знакомится с интересными людьми в будущем. Я хочу водить машину. Сейчас это звучит, как мечта, но это то, чем я хочу заниматься и что иметь. Я уверен, что планы начинаются с мечтаний. А еще я надеюсь, что мое будущее приготовило мне много приятных сюрпризов!

France and Germany: A Tale of Two Countries Drifting Apart

By Bruce Stokes, Director of Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center

Special to BBC News

A political, economic and demographic divide has opened up between France and Germany. And, if that were not trouble enough, a new Pew Research Center survey suggests that these two countries, which have for decades been the driving force behind European integration, increasingly see the world through different lenses.

The Franco-German alliance was based on rough equality between these two continental powers. In the 1980s, West Germany’s economy and population were slightly larger than France’s, but not overwhelmingly so, and French economic growth actually exceeded its neighbour’s.

Three decades later, this rough balance between Germany and France no longer exists. Germany’s population is now a quarter larger than that of France, the German economy is 38% bigger. And while the German economy grew at an admittedly weak 0.9% in 2012, the French economy did not grow at all.

The demographic and economic decoupling of Germany and France is now complicated by a widening gap in French and German public opinion – and a convergence of French attitudes with those in southern Europe.

Today the French and the Germans differ so greatly over the challenges facing their economies that they look as if they live on different continents, not within a single European market.

Eight out of 10 French people say unemployment is a very big problem compared with less than three out of 10 Germans. More than two-thirds of the French think inflation is a major issue, less than a third of Germans are similarly worried about rising prices. And 71% of the French are very troubled about public debt. Only 37% of the Germans share such concern.

More important for the future of the European Union, in 2009, 43% of the French were of the view that European economic integration had strengthened the French economy. At the same time, 50% of Germans thought integration had benefited Germany, a seven-percentage-point difference. Today, the figures for France and Germany are 22% and 54% respectively – a difference of a full 32 points.

The French and Germans have also parted ways in their views of the European Union as an institution. In 2007, before the euro crisis, 62% of the French and 68% of the Germans had a favourable opinion of it. In 2013, just 41% of the French still hold the EU in high regard, while 60% of the Germans do. A six-point gap in attitudes has grown to a 19-point gap in just a half dozen years.

These figures suggest that the French are now even more eurosceptic than the British, 26% of whom say European economic integration has strengthened the British economy, and 43% of whom have a favourable opinion of the EU.

Meanwhile, the French think more and more like southern Europeans.

As in France, more than three-quarters of Greeks and Italians believe economic integration has been bad for their country, and more than half of Spanish and Greeks look unfavourably on the EU.

Roughly nine out of 10 French say their economy is doing poorly, as do a similar proportion of Spanish, Italians and Greeks. Two-thirds or more of people in all four countries believe their elected leader has done a bad job handling the economic crisis.

And by all of these indicators French attitudes have worsened dramatically since 2007, much as has sentiment in Spain and Italy.

Roughly one in five French people say they could not afford food, health care or clothing at some point in the past year. And only 11% of the French think their economy will improve over the next 12 months. This makes the French among the most pessimistic of Europeans. Just 9% think their children will be better off financially than their parents, by far the gloomiest forecast for the next generation of the eight countries surveyed.

For the last generation, at least, the Franco-German alliance has been the motor driving every effort to broaden and deepen the European Union. Few observers believe that political union, or even more extensive economic integration, is possible in the absence of strong joint leadership by Paris and Berlin.

This new evidence of a dramatic divergence of public opinion across the Rhine on the problems now facing Europe and the merit of the European Union itself raises new questions about prospects for the European Project.