Two-thirds of EU citizens back UK rejoining bloc, survey finds

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A survey finds that two-thirds of EU citizens support the UK rejoining the European Union despite Brexit, with many UK voters acknowledging Brexit’s negative impact and favoring closer ties including free movement. The poll by the European Council on Foreign Relations reflects shifting attitudes across 15 countries ten years after the Brexit referendum.

Even voters for far-right and Eurosceptic parties back closer relations, polling says Two-thirds of EU citizens would back Britain rejoining the bloc, while most UK voters say Brexit has been bad for the issues they care about and want closer ties, including levels of integration – such as free movement – long seen as toxic, a survey has found. Ten years after the Brexit referendum, the polling by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a thinktank, found 66% of respondents across 15 countries felt UK membership was a very good, good or “neither a good nor a bad” idea. Continue reading...