Re: William Hill Odds : Next Country to Leave the EU
Originally Posted by
zuludog
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I'm not going to predict the next, but I would think those high on the list would include Italy, Greece, Spain, and Ireland
Dream on!
The Eurobarometer spring 2019 report, subtitled “Closer to the Citizens, Closer to the Ballot”, found that of the 27,973 Europeans surveyed across all EU Member States –
including the UK – 68 per cent said they believed Member States benefited from being part of the EU, representing the highest result for this question since 1983. 61 per cent of respondents said their home country’s membership of the EU was overall “a good thing”; matching the result of the last Eurobarometer, which showed the highest level of EU approval since the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall.
The*ongoing UK crisis over Brexit*appeared to have cemented positive sentiments among residents of other Member States towards EU membership. The report states: “One month ahead of the date originally scheduled for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU as laid down in Article 50, close to seven Europeans in ten said they would vote to remain in the EU if a referendum was held in their country. An absolute majority of respondents in 25 Member States hold this view, a relative majority shares this view in Italy, Czechia and the UK…[i]n