Courtesy of Mish.
Les Echos reports “the distrust of politics has never been so high in France. This is one of the great lessons of the latest CEVIPOF annual poll“.
Distrust of politics is extremely high everywhere, but at least the US is not in a depression.
Collective Depression
Via translation, please consider The French fall into a “collective depression”
The situation was already not good. And it gets worse again.
Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center for Political Research at Sciences Po (CEVIPOF), now talks of a “collective depression” in France.
For the first time since 2009 – the date of creation of the barometer, “gloom” has a relative majority of 34%, up 9 points. Three-quarters of French youth believe their chances of success of are less than their parents.
60% of French – an increase of 5 points over one year – believe their financial situation will worsen over the next twelve months.
Unions are in the barometer of CEVIPOF, with only 28% of French having confidence. This is a fall of 7 points in a year.
Growing Demand for Protection
Hardening of values is found by the barometer (“there are too many immigrants”) with for 67% in agreement.
47% of respondents – a jump of 17 points since 2009 – say France need “more protection”. Only 23% want France to open more. Only 35% of French believe that belonging to the European Union is a good thing for France, a drop of 17 points since October 2011. …
