New poll finds 65% of Germans believe they would be better off without the euro; Twenty years later, 64% of French would vote against the Maastricht Treaty

Under the front-page headline “Germans no longer believe in Europe”, Die Welt reports that support for the EU and the euro has hit an all-time low in Germany. According to a TNS Emnid poll carried out in July in Germany, France and Poland on behalf of the Bertelsmann Foundation, 49% of Germans said that they personally would be better off without the EU compared with 32% who said they would be worse off. 34% of French and 28% of Poles said they would be better off without the EU. The poll also found that 65% of Germans believed they would be better off had the euro not been introduced compared with 36% of French. Meanwhile, 76% of Poles opposed their country joining the single currency with only 18% in favour.
According to a new IFOP poll published on Le Figaro’s front page, 64% of French would today vote against ratifying the Maastricht Treaty which introduced the euro in 1992, although 65% of respondents also rejected a return to the French franc. 60% of respondents said they are in favour of “less European integration” of economic and budgetary policies.


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