When you say "~E2000/month jobs" do you say it based on what? On personal experience? As far as I know, corporate labs (which is an alternative to academia) are paying much more...
'Careers in CS' don't exist in the corporate world, certainly not in Europe.
Not personal experience in the sense that I took that route, but in the sense that I know plenty of people in positions like that.
Then again, fuck some anonymous dude on the internet like me - for all you know I could be a bored 13 year old pimply-faced teenager in Boca Raton trolling would-be academics online during his civics class. Check out job posts for postdocs on university websites, your eyes will start welling up when you see the salaries advertised there.
Careers in CS most certainly exist at Google, Yahoo, MS and Facebook, several of which have research labs in Europe (see MSR, Yahoo Barcelona, Google Zurich).
