Europeans want governments to focus more on curbing migration than climate change

Europeans wants their governments to attraction much connected curbing migration than ambiance change.

Globally, 33% judge ambiance alteration is 1 of nan world’s 3 main challenges, but only 14% opportunity fighting it should beryllium among nan apical 3 priorities for their government.

Germans were successful nan lead, pinch 44% wanting their authorities to attraction connected reducing immigration, while astir a 4th surveyed said fighting climate change was a priority.

The stats travel from a caller study commissioned by Denmark-based deliberation vessel Alliance of Democracies Foundation.

“Many European countries person seen a crisp emergence successful nan stock of group who opportunity that ‘reducing immigration’ should beryllium a apical authorities priority,” says nan study.

Based connected almost 63,000 interviews successful 53 countries, nan Democracy Perception Index recovered that 85% of those polled opportunity that it’s important to person democracy successful their country. However, governments don’t ever unrecorded up to people's expectations. While 58% of respondents were satisfied pinch nan authorities of populist successful their country, nan remainder were not.

The study said dissatisfaction was not constricted to non-democratic countries. It was besides prevalent successful nan US, Europe and successful different places pinch a agelong antiauthoritarian tradition. In Europe, astir a 3rd of Hungarians judge they unrecorded successful a democracy.

The study was based connected interviews conducted successful February and April. The separator of correction crossed each countries sampled was astir 2.9 percent points.