Editing Euroscepticism (section)

==Eurobarometer surveys==
[[File:Poll about perceived EU balance benefit (2023).png|thumb|Percentage responding that their country on balance benefited from being a member of the EU at [[Eurobarometer]] 2023:<ref name="Parlameter2018">{{cite web|language=en|url=https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/ro/be-heard/eurobarometer/socio-demographic-trends-edition-10|title=Socio-demographic trends in national public opinion|date=October 2023|access-date=29 July 2023|website=europarl.europa.eu}}</ref>{{Col-begin}} {{Col-break}} {{legend|#7F2AFF|91–100%}} {{legend|#0066FF|81–90%}} {{legend|#00AA00|71–80%}} {{Col-break}} {{legend|#FFCC00|61–70%}} {{legend|#FF6600|51–60%}}{{Col-end}}]]
A survey in {{As of|2015|11|alt=November 2015}}, conducted by [[Taylor Nelson Sofres|TNS]] Opinion and Social on behalf of the [[European Commission]], showed that, across the EU as a whole, those with a positive image of the EU were down from a high of 52% in 2007 to 37% in autumn 2015; this compares with 23% with a negative image of the EU, and 38% with a neutral image.<ref name = "Eurobarometer Autumn 2015, EU image"/> About 43% of Europeans thought things were "going in the wrong direction" in the EU, compared with 23% who thought things were going "in the right direction" (11% "don't know").<ref name = "Eurobarometer Autumn 2015, Right direction"/> About 32% of EU citizens tend to trust the EU as an institution, and about 55% do not tend to trust it (13% "don't know").<ref name = "Eurobarometer Autumn 2015, Trust in EU"/> Distrust of the EU was highest in [[Greece]] (81%), [[Cyprus]] (72%), [[Austria]] (65%), [[France]] (65%), the [[United Kingdom]] (UK) and the [[Czech Republic]] (both 63%). Overall, more respondents distrusted their own government (66%) than they distrusted the EU (55%). Distrust of national government was highest in Greece (82%), [[Slovenia]] (80%), [[Portugal]] (79%), Cyprus (76%), and France (76%).<ref name = "Eurobarometer Autumn 2015, Trust in national government "/>

A Eurobarometer survey carried out four days prior to and six days after the [[2016 United States presidential election]] revealed that the surprise victory of [[Donald Trump]] caused an increase in the popularity of the EU in Europe. The increase was strongest among the political right and among respondents who perceived their country as economically struggling.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Minkus|first1=Lara|last2=Deutschmann|first2=Emanuel|last3=Delhey|first3=Jan|date=October 2018|title=A Trump Effect on the EU's Popularity? The U.S. Presidential Election as a Natural Experiment |journal=Perspectives on Politics|volume=17|issue=2|language=en|pages=399–416|doi=10.1017/S1537592718003262 |doi-access=free |issn=1537-5927}}</ref>

A survey carried out in April 2018 for the European Parliament by Kantar Public consulting found that support for the EU was "the highest score ever measured since 1983". Support for the EU was up in 26 out of 28 EU countries, the exceptions being Germany and the UK, where support had dropped by about 2% since the previous survey. Almost half (48%) of the 27,601 EU citizens surveyed agreed that their voice counted in the EU, up from 37% in 2016, whereas 46% disagreed with this statement. Two-thirds (67%) of respondents felt that their country had benefited from EU membership and 60% said that being part of the bloc was a good thing, as opposed to 12% who felt the opposite. At the height of the EU's financial and economic crises in 2011, just 47% had been of the view that EU membership was a good thing. Support for EU membership was greatest in [[Malta]] (93%), [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] (91%), [[Lithuania]] (90%), [[Poland]] (88%), [[Luxembourg]] (88%), [[Estonia]] (86%), and [[Denmark]] (84%), and lowest in [[Greece]] (57%), [[Bulgaria]] (57%), [[Republic of Cyprus|Cyprus]] (56%), [[Austria]] (54%), the [[United Kingdom]] (53%), and [[Italy]] (44%).<ref name="Heath-2018">{{Cite news|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/europeans-love-the-eu-and-populists-too/|title=Europeans love the EU (and populists too)|last=Heath|first=Ryan|date=23 May 2018|work=Politico.eu}}</ref>

When asked which issues should be a priority for the European Parliament, survey respondents picked terrorism as the most pressing topic of discussion, ahead of youth unemployment and immigration. Not all countries shared the same priorities. Immigration topped the list in Italy (66% of citizens surveyed considered it a priority issue), Malta (65%), and [[Hungary]] (62%) but fighting youth unemployment and support for economic growth were top concerns in [[Spain]], Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, and [[Croatia]]. Social protection of citizens was the top concern for Dutch, Swedish, and Danish respondents.<ref name="Heath-2018"/>

The April 2019 [[Eurobarometer]] showed that despite the challenges of the past years, and in cases such as the ongoing debate surrounding Brexit, possibly even because of it, the European sense of togetherness had not weakened, with 68% of respondents across the EU27 believing that their countries have benefited from being part of the EU, a historically high level since 1983. On the other hand, more Europeans (27%) were uncertain and saw the EU as "neither a good thing nor a bad thing", an increase in 19 countries. Despite the overall positive attitude towards the EU but in line with the uncertainty expressed by a growing number of Europeans, the feeling that things were not going in the right direction in both the EU and in their own countries had increased to 50% on EU average since September 2018.<ref name="europarl.europa.eu"/>

The Eurobarometer 93.1 survey was in the field across Europe when the [[European Council]] summit reached political agreement on a pandemic economic recovery fund (later named [[Next Generation EU]]) on 21 July 2020. A comparison of Eurobarometer responses gathered before this seminal decision and interviews conducted shortly thereafter indicates that the European Council's endorsement of pandemic economic relief increased popular support of COVID-19 economic recovery aid - but only among Europeans who view EU decisionmakers as trustworthy.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Mikulaschek |first=Christoph |date=29 August 2023 |title=The responsive public: How European Union decisions shape public opinion on salient policies |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14651165231190322 |journal=European Union Politics |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=645–665 |language=en |doi=10.1177/14651165231190322 |s2cid=261386222 |issn=1465-1165}}</ref>

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|+General public image of EU by country according to [[Eurobarometer]] 2024<ref name="i768">{{cite report | title=Public opinion in the European Union: first results : report. | date=2024 | publisher=Publications Office of the European Union | doi=10.2775/437940 | url=https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2775/437940 | page = 13 | author1=European Commission. Directorate General for Communication. }}</ref>
! Country !! Positive % !! Neutral % !! Negative %
!Positive % - Negative %
|-
| {{flaglist|Czech Republic}}	||	{{Percentage bar|35|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|35|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|30|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+5</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|France}}	||	{{Percentage bar|33|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||	'''{{Percentage bar|38|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}'''||  {{Percentage bar|28|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+5</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Austria}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|38|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||  {{Percentage bar|24|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|27|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+11</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Greece}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|38|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|37|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|25|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+13</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Cyprus}}	||	{{Percentage bar|39|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||	'''{{Percentage bar|40|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}'''||  {{Percentage bar|21|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+18</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Spain}}	||	{{Percentage bar|42|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||	'''{{Percentage bar|44|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}'''||  {{Percentage bar|13|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+19</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Slovenia}}	||	{{Percentage bar|37|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||	'''{{Percentage bar|46|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}'''||  {{Percentage bar|16|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+21</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Slovakia}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|44|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|34|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|22|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+22</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Malta}}	||	{{Percentage bar|39|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||	'''{{Percentage bar|45|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}'''||  {{Percentage bar|16|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+23</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Germany}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|42|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|41|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|17|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+25</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Hungary}}	||	{{Percentage bar|42|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|42|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|16|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+26</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Belgium}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|47|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||  {{Percentage bar|33|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|20|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+27</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Italy}}	||  '''{{Percentage bar|44|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|40|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|16|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+28</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Estonia}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|43|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|41|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|15|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+28</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Netherlands}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|44|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|29|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|15|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+29</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Croatia}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|53|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||  {{Percentage bar|34|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|13|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+30</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Poland}}	||  '''{{Percentage bar|54|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|33|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|13|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+31</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Romania}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|46|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|39|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|14|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+32</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Sweden}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|55|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|33|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|12|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+33</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Latvia}}	||	{{Percentage bar|44|c=#80FF80|width=50}}||	'''{{Percentage bar|45|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}'''||  {{Percentage bar|10|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+34</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Bulgaria}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|53|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||  {{Percentage bar|28|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|18|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+35</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Luxembourg}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|54|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|29|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|16|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+38</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Finland}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|49|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|40|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|10|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+39</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Denmark}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|59|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|31|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|9|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+50</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Lithuania}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|58|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|35|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|6|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+52</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Ireland}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|66|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|24|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|10|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+56</span>
|-
| {{flaglist|Portugal}}	||	'''{{Percentage bar|68|c=#80FF80|width=50}}'''||	{{Percentage bar|26|c=#D3D3D3|width=50}}||  {{Percentage bar|5|c=#FF8080|width=50}}
|<span style="color:green;">+61</span>
|}