In the run-up to the EU's 50th birthday a Financial Times poll has found that 44% of Europeans think life has got worse since their country joined
BBC News:
The FT/Harris online poll surveyed 6,772 adults in Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. US citizens were also asked questions about the EU.
Just 22% of the Europeans questioned thought their country should pull out of the 27-nation bloc, however.
UK respondents were the most negative about the EU draft constitution.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel - currently holding the EU presidency - wants to get agreement on a roadmap for EU institutional changes by June, setting 2009 as the deadline for adoption of a constitution.
When asked what they associated most with the EU, 31% of the FT/Harris poll respondents said the single market, 20% bureaucracy, 9% democracy and 26% other factors.
In the UK, 52% of those questioned said things had got worse since joining the EU, while in Spain 53% said life had improved.
EU citizens voice concern at meddling eurocrats
EU leaders to mark golden jubilee of Treaty of Rome as poll signals "pervasive pessimism" in Europe
posted by Adam Lawson @ 11:36 AM
2 comments
2 Comments:
In the UK, 52% of those questioned said things had got worse since joining the EU, while in Spain 53% said life had improved.
Perhaps explained by two facts: the UK has placed few if any restrictions on its labor market, and hence has been flooded with nationals from new EU lands looking for work; and Spain is still a big net recipient of EU funds which pay for all sorts of infrastructure improvement projects.
There's nothing wrong with the EU that couldn't be helped by placing restrictions on Third World immigration.
Post a Comment
<< Home