Support for E.U. Improves, Poll Finds

Attitudes toward the European Union have improved ahead of elections to the European Parliament this month, but there is growing reluctance to cede more power to Brussels, according to a closely watched poll published Monday.

 

Support for the union in most of the seven countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan organization based in Washington, remained lower than before the onset of the financial and debt crises in 2008. Many European Union institutions, including the Parliament, also received poor ratings.

 

The results, part of Pew’s annual survey of attitudes toward the bloc, were another sign that the project for European integration, conceived more than six decades ago as an effort to bind a continent together after World War II, has become, for many Europeans, a symbol of unwelcome meddling and of economic mismanagement.

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