CONFIDENCE in the European Union (EU) is in freefall across almost every member state, according to the EU’s own opinion poll. The pan-European survey, prepared for the European Commission, also reveals that only one-third of Britons see benefit in continued membership, the lowest in the 25 countries polled.###
Trust in the Brussels commission, the executive branch of the EU, has plunged from 52% to 46% throughout the union. In Britain, the commission is trusted by 31% and distrusted by 38%.
Fall-out from the recent French and Dutch campaigns for the EU constitution referendum has prompted a fundamental rethink across Europe about the future of Brussels, the majority of Europeans believing the European Commission’s budget should be frozen.
The cascade of negative data from the study is the most severe since records began in 1975, according to Taylor Nelson Sofres, the research firm which conducted the survey.
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