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"Support for leaving the EU has dropped significantly, and sometimes
dramatically, in member states across the bloc in the wake of the UK’s Brexit
referendum, according to data from a major pan-European survey.
The European Social Survey (ESS), led by City, University of London and
conducted in 30 European nations every two years since 2001, found respondents
were less likely to vote leave in every EU member state for which data was
available.
The largest decline in leave support was in Finland, where 28.6% of respondents
who declared which way they would vote in a Brexit-style referendum answered
leave in 2016-2017, against only 15.4% in 2020-2022.
Similarly stark falls between 2016 and 2022 were recorded in the Netherlands
(from 23% to 13.5%), Portugal (15.7% to 6.6%), Austria (26% to 16.1%) and
France (24.3% to 16%), with smaller but still statistically significant falls
in Hungary (16% to 10.2%), Spain (9.3% to 4.7%) Sweden (23.9% to 19.3%), and
Germany (13.6% to 11%).
Support for leave in the survey’s most recent round was highest in the Czech
Republic (29.2%), Italy (20.1%) and Sweden (19.3%), but even in those countries
it had declined by 4.5 percentage points, 9.1 points and 4.6 points
respectively since 2016-2017, the survey showed. Leave was least popular in
Spain (4.7%).
The period covers Britain’s long and fraught negotiations to leave the EU, but
also the country’s ensuing political turmoil – five prime ministers in six
years – and its current social and economic woes, all of which have been
heavily reported on the continent and are widely interpreted as being caused at
least partly by Brexit."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
