Wednesday, August 19, 2015

It was once seen as a British disease. But Euroscepticism has  now spread across the continent like a virus. As data from  Eurobarometer shows, trust in the European project has fallen even faster than growth rates. Since the beginning of the euro crisis, trust in the European Union has fallen fro  +10 to -22 percent in France, from +20 to -29 percent in  Germany, from +30 to -22 percent in Italy, from +42 to -52  percent in Spain, from +50 to +6 percent in Poland, and from -13 to -49 percent in the United Kingdom.  What is so striking is that everyone in the EU has been losing  faith in the project: both creditors and debtors, and Eurozone  countries, would-be members, and “opt-outs”

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