L’opinion publique européenne face à la crise grecque

Abstract

Jean Catsiapis referring to surveys performed in different European countries observes that solidarity to the Greeks who suffer from a severe financial, economic and social crisis is relatively high among the peoples of southern Europe and France while the public and the media in Germany and some other northern European countries are hostile or reluctant to provision of aid to Athens. However, this solidarity is fraying as this crisis spreads gradually to other European countries. The author of this article concludes that Belgium, Spain and the United Kingdom are crossed by centrifugal forces from some of their provinces, which benefiting from an economy not too much degraded, are inclined to secession, in order not to show solidarity with these countries experiencing serious difficulties.