In my opinion you can't go wrong with a C206 or C182. The newer models are available with TKS which is nice to have in Europe. The IO-540 C182 (1996 and newer) can be easily upgraded to 260hp for better takeoff and climb performance, but the stock aircraft is already quite good. For a proficient pilot a 600 m strip is a piece of cake in either airplane.
If you're into the glass-cockpit thingy (not bad to have for resale purposes) you can get the newer ones with G1000 or retrofit the GTN, G500 or various other flavors of glass cockpit in the pre-2005 models.
To me if $ was no object, I'd get a late model turbo 206 with TKS.