The European Union is viewed favorably across much of the world, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. A median of 58% of adults across 33 surveyed countries have a favorable opinion of the EU, while just 27% hold an unfavorable view. In the 19 non-EU countries surveyed, attitudes […] Read more »
Give the people what they want: Popular demand for a strong European foreign policy
… The EU’s lack of foreign policy capacity – and, as a consequence, its feeble global standing – appears to largely result from the idea that the European population wants nothing else. Earlier this year, the European Council on Foreign Relations commissioned YouGov to carry out surveys covering more than […] Read more »
Gallup Vault: U.S. Opinion and the Start of World War II
On Sept. 1, 1939, after previously seizing Austria and Czechoslovakia, Nazi Germany invaded neighboring Poland, resulting in Britain and France declaring war on Germany and thus kicking off World War II in Europe. As all of this was unfolding, in a poll conducted Sept. 1-6, 1939, Gallup asked Americans to […] Read more »
Europe: Satisfaction With Environment Declines Ahead of Green Wave
… Through its World Poll instrument, Gallup has been tracking public sentiment in Europe — and around the world — for the past 14 years on myriad issues, ranging from how people rate their lives to their trust in their national institutions. When we asked people across Europe about their […] Read more »
The Wave That Could Carry Trump to Re-election
… Brexit, Election Day 2016, the collapse of the center-left in France, Germany and Italy, the so-called yellow vest protests, the losses by centrist parties in the recent European elections and a political upset in Australia have been categorized as examples of “populism” or “nationalism.” They are labeled a reaction […] Read more »
The myth of the citizens’ assembly
Put 100 ordinary citizens in a room and together they will solve the most intractable political problems of our time and save democracy in the process. If only things were so simple. Citizens’ assemblies, in which ordinary people are entrusted to carefully consider evidence on an issue and deliver policy […] Read more »