Is there a two-speed Europe also in the well-being?

Eurostat databases provide forty indicators relevan t to measure the well-being in different countries. In this paper we propose to identify dif ferent levels of wellbeing in two European areas, by the analysis of a sample of Centre-North Europe (Sweden, Germany, France, Britain and the Netherlands, which are among the most advan ced states), and a sample of Mediterranean countries (Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece). The goal of the research is to grasp and quantify t he specificities of these countries in a phase when inequalities grow. We have represented w elfare through 11 dimensions based on 77 variables and analyzed the differences in each of t hem between the countries in the two areas by Pena's Distance and MPI, two different methodologie s – parametric and non-parametric – that allow the combination of variables in a way consist ent with our objective.