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EU Losing Lustre Among Candidates
The European Union is losing the broad popular support it once enjoyed in the three candidate countries, Macedonia, Turkey and Croatia, the latest survey by Eurobarometer shows.
Among the three nations, the EU is most popular in Macedonia, where is is supported by 62 percent of the population. The same figure was 72 percent when the survey was last done in spring.
In Turkey and Croatia, the other two EU aspirants with the same status as Macedonia, support for EU membership stands at 42 and 23 percent respectively.
In Macedonia, which has been an EU candidate since 2005, 62 percent of respondents said EU membership would be “a positive thing”, while 74 percent replied they saw benefits in joining the bloc.
Some 60 percent of Macedonians said they mainly worried about the unemployment rate, currently at some 33 percent, while another 41 percent expressed concern over the economic situation in the country.
Source: Balkan Insight
