Three-fifths of Hungarians skeptical about EU trends

(MTI) – Fully 61 percent of Hungarians believe the European Union is heading in a bad direction, a recent Ipsos survey shows.

The average in the ten nations involved in the online survey was seven percentage points higher. The survey, conducted with a sample of 8,000, also revealed that Hungarians, alongside Germans and Poles, were the most optimistic about the EU’s future.

Just 17 percent of Hungarian respondents said that the country should quit the EU compared with the ten-nation figure of 19 percent. Fully 73 percent of Hungarians criticised the EU for its impact on the economy, 56 percent for its effect on agriculture and 53 percent for its influence on the legal system. Just over half of Hungarians gave the EU bad marks for pressuring member states to reduce their central spending. This compares with 62 percent of the whole sample.

Again, just over half of the Hungarian sample agreed with the proposition that the EU gives unfair advantages to rich member states. More Spaniards and Italians were of this view (over 70 percent) whereas fewer Germans, Dutch and Swedes believed this to be the case (below 45 percent).

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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters