Europeans’ Confidence in EU Drops to Six-Year Low, Survey Shows

Europeans’ confidence in the European Union dropped to a six-year low as the 27-nation bloc battled the Greece-led debt crisis, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey.

Forty-nine percent of respondents said their nation’s membership in the EU was “a good thing,” according to the poll of more than 26,000 people released today by the EU executive arm in Brussels. That’s the lowest since 2004 and down from 53 percent in the previous survey six months ago.