French Fractures 2018
10 months before the European Elections, 34% of French people are feeling disappointed by the EU and 52% think that it tends to increase the effects on the country of economic, diplomatic or environmental crisis.
Ipsos, in partnership with Sopra Steria, publishes this week the sixth wave of the "Fractures Françaises" survey for Le Monde, The Jean-Jaurès Foundation and Sciences Po. A photograph of the state of French opinion after a little more than a year in power of Emmanuel Macron.
Discover the main lessons of this 2018 wave:
- Most people subscribe to declinism, but the regain in confidence in 2017 is irrefutable
- Support for authoritarian values has dropped slightly, except on the death penalty
- Defiance towards the outside world and globalisation has slightly progressed
- Rejection of immigration is still very strong
- Both a desire for redistribution and a rejection of the nanny state exist
- The French people now clearly think that the emphasis should be placed on protecting employees rather than making the employment market more flexible
- The confidence French citizens have in the democratic system is eroding from one year to the next
- All aspects of policy conducted by the European Union are negatively judged, particularly its migration policy
- The French are largely in favour of the European project, but they are not convinced about the way it is currently applied
- LREM is viewed as the most pro-European party, the FN in contrast is viewed as the most Europhobic
