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European elections: meeting the expectations of a fragmented public opinion

11 Mar 2024

What are the priorities? The next elections to the European Parliament will take place in less than five months’ time in a very specific national, European and international context: very strong pessimism about the socio-economic situation as a result of the inflation and stagnation of the economy caused by the energy crisis; the rise and normalisation of the radical and extreme right in many EU m. [...] The first dimension, by far the most important and the most structuring (it accounts for 20% of the total variance in the opinions expressed), distingui- shes between the most opposing opinions: on the one hand, the most negative opinions and, on the other, the most positive opinions with regard to all the indica- tors selected. [...] This is one of the paradoxes of European integration: the process of integration is based on the construction of an imaginary world in which the nation state is surpassed, and at the same time this imaginary world places at the heart of all the issues it deals with the question of sovereignty, borders and the perimeter of European integration in relation to that of nation states. [...] In these countries, it covers the national population of citizens and the population of citizens of all the Member States of the European Union residing in these countries and having a sufficient command of the national languages to answer the questionnaire. [...] In order to exploit the wealth of indicators measured by the Eurobarometer and to bring out the complexity of attitudes towards the EU, the statistical analysis of the data was conducted with a threefold objective: • Highlight the most salient dimensions of support (or lack of support) for the EU from the data by combining 14 questions on the diffuse forms of this support (these are indicators of.
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