Greeks most distrustful of the European Union, survey finds

[Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]

Greeks are the astir distrustful of the European Union successful the 27-member bloc and are besides the astir dissatisfied with its effect to the war successful Ukraine, a caller Eurobarometer survey of nationalist sentiment has found.

Some 61% of Greek respondents said they “tend not to trust” the EU, conscionable supra Cyprus and Slovenia (both 54%), compared to a 27-country mean of 43%.

At the different extremity of the scale, Portuguese (79%) and Danish (73%) respondents were much trusting of the EU.

Only 27% of Greek respondents said they were satisfied with EU’s effect to Russia’s penetration of Ukraine, the lowest complaint among EU citizens and well beneath the mean of 55%.

Asked astir home issues, 60% of Greek respondents felt the situation successful their state was “bad,” with 56% of saying that they expected it to deteriorate successful the adjacent 12 months.

Just implicit fractional (53%) said rising costs, ostentation and the outgo of surviving was the astir important contented facing the country.

Only 22% said they trusted the nationalist parliament.