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People all over Europe say their countries are falling and the society is broken, according to the new IPSOS survey made available CNBC.
Over the past four years, negative moods have increased in the most important economies of Europe – together with citizens in Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy, more and more sharing the belief that society has been “broken” in the last four years.
Clifford Young, president of electoral and social trends, the USA in Ipsos, on Thursday said CNBC: “Predisposition to populism and anti -storage moods is very stable and high at global level.”
Populist moods dominated in election discussions throughout Europe, and the heavy right -wing patriots of the Europe group secure over 10% of votes in last year's elections in the European Parliament.
Over the past week, the candidate supported by Trump won the Polish presidency in the narrow vote of the second round, while in Romania Pro -u Nicusor Dan won the presidential vote after losing the first round with the extreme right-wing candidate.
In Germany, 77% of respondents stated that they believe that society is broken-16 percentage points since these research in 2021. Both Great Britain and France also recorded a double percentage increase.
The largest economy in Europe has recorded its participation in political shocks in recent months. The German extremely right -wing alternative party Für Deutschland secured over 20% of national votes in February, double their participation in voting from 2021.
Since then, two traditional centrician parties in the country have created a government and provisions have been adopted enabling serious defense and infrastructure loans.
Carsten Nickel Teneo on Thursday described the plans of the German government as “massive, large -scale, live in the largest economy in Europe. With 500 billion public investments, can you actually lower the voice of AfD?”
It seems that economic fears increase populist moods throughout the continent. In every European country that participated in the survey, people more often than they do not think that their economies are forged to transfer the rich and powerful.
About 72% of British respondents agreed with this statement, the highest number in Europe and more than any other country in G7. But the sentiment was divided all over the world, with most of the 31 countries in the report that their economies are falsified.
The University of York Academic Daphne Halikiopoulou claims that right -wing populist parties adapt their messages to reference to these voters.
“These parties are increasingly talking economics in a way that refers to what I call peripheral voters, so people who do not vote for far -right support, but rather as a (a) protest against other parties, the mainstream, which they think they failed socially and economically.”
The British most likely supported the “strong leader who breaks the rules” as a solution to the problems they see in their economy. More than half of the respondents agree that a strong leader was needed, compared to only 24% of people in Germany who want a breakthrough leader and only 38% in the United States.
Young claims that this is the sign “People are very frustrated because they do not feel like they got fair fees”, while Lizzie Galbraith, a senior political economist in Aberdeen, said: “In Great Britain there was evidence for some time that there is a level of dissatisfaction with the status quo … a decrease in living standards is probably a really good reason why this is unsatisfied.”
The Administrative Labor Party of Great Britain is facing pressure in polls from the Right -wing Reformation Party of the United Kingdom led by Nigel Farage, who recently outlined the plan to expand social payments and reduce taxes.
But pressure on public finances can limit the government's ability to create your own expenditure offers to increase its popularity.
Nickel told CNBC that “extremely limited fiscal space” makes the work government more reactive to “short -term and ultimately interest rate trends, and then the possibility of looking at long -term and really making investments that would be required or which may matter.”
The Prime Minister of Great Britain Keir Starmer is chairing a round table with British business leaders at Downing Street in London on April 3, 2025.
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Financial pressure can also affect the political platforms of populist parties if they are successful in securing power throughout Europe. Galbraith says that “the actual implementation of these policies in practice would be much more difficult.”
She added: “We often saw how populist moderate parties are when they enter the government because of these fiscal restrictions in which they are.”
France is to be another important European economy that went to the polls when it conducted the presidential election in 2027, and this is another country in which we saw signs of public frustration. 65% of the IPSOS survey respondents agreed that “society is broken” in this country.
Galbraith described the position of the French government as “really difficult”, warning that President Emmanuel Macron “suffers from political divisions to the presidential election” because he wants to introduce economic reforms with the help of a deeply divided National Assembly.
The national rally leader Marine Le Pen was blocked in the election after he was convicted of embezzlement – the allegation he denies. Halikiopoulou claims that the decision can be a “double -edged sword”, with the far -right party wants to introduce themselves as “victims”.