Germans’ Backing of EU Rises to Record as Economy Bucks Gloom
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Germans’ support for the European Union rose to a record along with satisfaction about the economy, contrasting with anti-EU groundswells in neighboring countries.
EU membership was cited as a net benefit by 40 percent of Germans in an Infratest poll for broadcaster ARD, the highest level in the poll’s 15-year history. That compares with 25 percent in April 2010, the month before Greece agreed to a sovereign bailout at the start of the euro-area debt crisis, Infratest said on its website.