Trust in national governments plummets across the EU during Covid pandemic – Survey

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Support for national governments throughout the EU has fallen in the course of the Covid pandemic, a new bloc-wide survey has found, as sluggish vaccine rollouts fuel criticism of state responses to the crisis.

The survey, conducted by EU agency Eurofound, showed that citizens in all countries across the bloc, except in Denmark, have less faith in their national government than they’d had before Covid lockdowns were imposed in March 2020. The Austrian government, which initially gained support domestically for its handling of the pandemic but then came under fire for its vaccine purchases, experienced the largest drop in support.

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