In a feature on the 2025 World Happiness Report, Tagesschau highlights Finland’s continued top ranking, crediting strong social trust and state support like baby boxes for new parents. This year’s focus on “caring and sharing” shows that collective living and shared meals boost wellbeing. HEC Paris professor Yann Algan, co-author of the report, argues that happiness and trust shape political choices—and warns that a lack of solidarity can lead to rising extremism.