Flash Eurobarometer 338 Some highlights of the new report.

MONITORING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF THE CRISIS

80% of respondents think that poverty has increased in their own country over the past 12 months

63% of respondents say that there is a risk of being unable to cope with an unexpected expense of €1,000 over the coming year

While 46% of people think they would be likely to find another job within six months in the event of being laid-off, 48% say they would be unlikely to do so

A majority (57%) of EU respondents is worried that they will have insufficient income in old age to live in dignity – up from 53% in October 2010.

The EU spreads extra misery each and every extra day of its existence. Close it down, its officialdom is fat enough already!

The link to the report is here.

Are EU Citizens finally sensing the EU Conspiracy?

Back in the old days of my blogging on Ironies I used to regularly comment upon the six monthly Eurobarometer polls in the forlorn hope that the citizens of the EU would soon see through the lies and corruption spread about by the EU and its forerunners. Yesterday, accompanied by the usual spin and untruthfulness, the latest poll number 73, linked here, appeared and the really good news for me is on pages 12, 13 and 16. The first two graphs show the lines moving as if to eventually cross on whether the EU is a good or bad thing, whether it has been good or bad for one's own country and in the three large countries France, Germany and the UK the largest majorities of all 27 former nations by large majorities now tend not to trust this ever more soendthrift and wasteful organisation. As the battle over the EU budget and Ashton's extravagences mount this situation will push the EU as an organisation evcer deeper into the deep contempt it properly deserves!