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November 08, 2005

Confidence In European Union Crashes To Historic Lows

The dream is dying?:

CONFIDENCE in the European Union (EU) is in freefall across almost every member state, according to the EU’s own opinion poll.

...

Trust in the Brussels commission, the executive branch of the EU, has plunged from 52% to 46% throughout the union. In Britain, the commission is trusted by 31% and distrusted by 38%.

Fall-out from the recent French and Dutch campaigns for the EU constitution referendum has prompted a fundamental rethink across Europe about the future of Brussels, the majority of Europeans believing the European Commission’s budget should be frozen.

The cascade of negative data from the study is the most severe since records began in 1975...

Particular dismay with the EU was found in Britain, where a majority – 42% to 40% – believe the UK has not benefited from its 30-year membership and only 36% of those questioned considered membership “a good thing”.

Here's the basic theory behind the EU: Take a bunch of dysfunctional, backbiting fuck-ups and aggregate them into a big group of dysfunctional, backbiting fuck-ups, and all problems will be solved out of this gestalt (German for "cretinous clusterfuck").

After all: It worked in the Police Academy movies.



posted by Ace at 02:13 PM
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Dude, you killed their server...

Posted by: Jeff on November 8, 2005 02:22 PM

And then the pink unicorns will dance in the meadows with the fuzzy bunnies and the rivers will flow with chocolate!

I just love magical thinking, don't you?

Posted by: Mikey on November 8, 2005 03:06 PM

A six-point drop is a "crash?" I wonder how you would characterize Bush's poll numbers. Personally, I would consider a six-point drop more akin to a "dip."

Posted by: Matt on November 8, 2005 03:33 PM

The Bad News Bears did it first.

Or maybe the Dirty Dozen.

Or maybe Jack Lemmon's The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960), although the resemblance to Cary Grant's Operation Petticoat (1959) is unmistakable.

Posted by: Phinn on November 8, 2005 04:01 PM

I wonder how you would characterize Bush's poll numbers.

Better than the EU's?

Posted by: Tony on November 8, 2005 06:42 PM

Frankly, I'm surprised the numbers are still so high. One British journalist (I forget which) had a long-standing wager with his readers: he would award a bottle of fine wine (or was it champagne?) to anyone who could name a benefit the UK received from the EU that he couldn't effectively debunk. The EU parliament is unelected, corrupt, petty, self-serving and self-important, out of touch, greedy...imagine the UN, but with a blank check and complete veto power over everyone's national sovereignty.

Posted by: S. Weasel on November 8, 2005 07:03 PM

And the current situation in France does not help either.

If I could, I'd vote to dismantle this EU and restart with a free-trade zone without all the political and regulatory baggage.

Posted by: FabioC. on November 9, 2005 10:27 AM
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