According to a new survey throughout the Old Continent, the support of different people in various countries to abandon the European Union fell precipitously after Brexit. This study is carried out in various member states every two years and had very revealing results, since in some nations the drop reached almost 15 points.
This was the case in Finland, where in the year 2016-2017 they voted in favor of leaving the international institution by 28.6%, while only 15.4% wanted to take this measure in the period 2020-2022. Similar numbers were recorded in other members of the European Union like the Netherlands, where the drop was 9.5 points, Portugal with 9.1 and Austria with 8.5.
The countries that were most interested in leaving the organization They were the Czech Republic with 29.2%, Italy with 20.1% and Sweden with 19.3%, although even in those cases there was a decrease of 4.5 points, 9.1 and 4.6, respectively. This period that was recorded is the one that covers the tough negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom, after it was separated by the referendum carried out by the people.
In addition, another of the turning points is the war between Russia and Ukraine that made several citizens consider the importance of this body for military defense and economic unity in view of any other conflict that may arise on the continent. . “This change comes from a host of combined effects, such as the attitude of the EU to various crises in the previous years, the moderation of the radical right on leaving the body and all the problems that arose after Brexit in the United Kingdom”, Ipsos research director Mathieu Gallard told The Guardian.
The disappointment of those who voted to leave
This is not the only document that came out about the European Union at the start of the year, but there are signs that more conservative voters within the UK were angry with the result after leaving the country.
According to Opinium, one in three Conservative Party voters said Brexit caused more problems for them than it solved. On the other hand, 22% expressed that the situation is the other way around, while the other third indicated that there were neither positive nor negative changes. Meanwhile, the rest indicated that they “did not know.”
