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Euro Isn’t Loved, but Few Want to Drop It, Poll Says

[The New York Times]

More than two years into a euro crisis that has toppled governments and sown economic pain, citizens of five euro zone countries — including Greece — say the euro has not been a good thing for them, but nevertheless do not want to go back to their old currencies, according to a survey to be released Tuesday.

Greece, the country most at risk of falling out of the euro, typified the contradiction. There, people were most likely to say that their country had been weakened by European economic integration. Yet support for the euro was highest, the poll found, perhaps showing Greek preferences as they head into new parliamentary elections on June 17 that could determine their future in the currency union. In fact, despite the financial troubles currently facing Europe, majorities in the five euro zone countries in the survey favored keeping the single currency, ranging from 52 percent in Italy to 71 percent in Greece, according to the poll, which was carried out by the Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project. […]
Despite the virtual collapse of the Greek economy, the percentage of Greeks who said having the euro has been a “good thing” for their country was 46 percent, with the rest roughly divided between “bad thing” or “neither.” In Italy, just 30 percent called it a good thing, and just 31 percent in France.
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