Britons least positive about EU
It won’t surprise many: Britons are least positive about the European Union according to a Eurobarometer survey. British citizens are known to be mostly eurosceptic. Joining them at the top of the list are Austrians and Latvians, with a majority having a negative view of the EU. In the Benelux countries (Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg), more than 75%, on average, of the population have a positive view of the EU. Inflation in the European Union is becoming a greater concern to Europeans. 30000 citizens took part in the survey across the entire European Union.
Citizens from the UK, Latvia and Austria are the least convinced that EU membership is positive, while Bulgaria appears to be the more eurosceptic of the two newest EU states, according to a Eurobarometer survey released on Tuesday (18 December).
Some 34 percent of Britons, 37 percent of Latvians and 38 percent of Austrians see their countries’ EU membership as a “good thing”, while only 37 percent of British and Cypriot citizens as well as 42 percent of Hungarians and Austrians think that their country has generally benefited from EU membership, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey.
Administrator @ December 19, 2007