PEW Research Center
May 29, 2012
In Europe, what started out four years ago as a sovereign debt
crisis, morphed into a euro currency crisis and led to the fall of
several European governments, has now triggered a full-blown crisis of
public confidence: in the economy, in the future, in the benefits of
European economic integration, in membership in the European Union, in
the euro and in the free market system. The public is very worried about
joblessness, inflation and public debt, and those fears are fueling
much of this uncertainty and negativity.
Europeans largely oppose further fiscal austerity to deal with the
crisis. They are divided on bailing out indebted nations. They oppose
Brussels’ impending oversight of national budgets. At the same time,
Europeans who now use the euro have no desire to abandon it and return
to their former currency. And anti-German sentiment is largely contained
to Greece, at least for the moment.
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