The Gazeta Wyborcza daily reported Friday that the Eurobazooka poll, commissioned by France’s Le Grand Continent magazine, shows only 69% of Polish respondents want to remain in the EU, while 25% support “Polexit.”
In France, 27% favor leaving and 67% want to stay. By contrast, 90% of Portuguese and 89% of Spaniards oppose an exit, as do 78% of Germans.
Across the eight countries surveyed, an average of 19% want to quit the EU, 74% support remaining, and 7% are undecided. The newspaper called that overall result “great,” citing the EU’s recent crises and geopolitical pressure, and noting that former U.S. President Donald Trump treats the Union as an enemy.
The survey was conducted online (CAWI) in late November in Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Croatia, with a little over 1,000 respondents in each country.
Gazeta Wyborcza contrasted the Polish figures with earlier domestic polling, recalling that 92% supported staying in 2022 and 77% did so two years later. It described today’s 25% support for an EU exit as a record and “extremely alarming,” arguing that France and Poland risk becoming weak links for Europe.
The paper asked whether Poland’s lower support reflects the victory of strongly Euro-skeptic President Karol Nawrocki, the rise of Confederation and Grzegorz Braun’s party, or sharper anti-EU rhetoric from conservative opposition party Law and Justice leader Jarosław Kaczyński. The Eurobazooka report does not answer those questions, it said.
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Source: PAP