People across Europe say their countries are in decline and society is broken, according to a new Ipsos poll shared with CNBC.
Negative sentiment has grown in the past four years across Europe’s major economies – with citizens in Great Britain, Germany, France and Italy all increasingly sharing the belief that society is “broken” over the past four years.
Ipsos U.S. President Clifford Young on Thursday told CNBC “the predisposition towards populism and anti-establishment sentiment is very stable and high at a global level.”
Populist sentiments have dominated electoral discussions across Europe, with the hard-right Patriots for Europe group securing over 10% of the vote at last year’s European Parliament election.
Within the past week, a Trump-backed candidate won the Polish presidency in a narrow second round vote, while in Romania the pro-EU Nicusor Dan won in a run-off presidential vote after losing the first round to a far-right candidate.
