Italy has turned out to be more Euroskeptic than previously imagined after a new survey revealed that a majority of Italians want to see their country following UK and crashing out of the 28-member bloc.
According to a poll of nearly 28,000 Europeans commissioned by the European Parliament’s Eurobarometer, only 44 percent of Italians would vote to remain in the EU, compared to the member states’ average of 66 percent, making Italy one of the bloc’s most eurosceptic countries.
The figure is higher even than Britain which announced that it was withdrawing from the bloc in 2016 after 51 percent of Britons voted for BRexit.
A clear majority of respondents in Italy were convinced that things in the EU were going in the wrong direction: 58 percent, compared to just 21 percent who said it was on the right track. Most EU countries answered similarly, in fact, with a comparable percentag
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