EU moving towards more xenophobic view of 'Europeanness', report warns

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Far-right parties' first-place finishes in the European elections in France, Italy, Belgium, Austria and Hungary, and strong showings in the Netherlands and Germany, had also fuelled a sharp increase in anti-immigration discourse.
56% : Data suggests some central and eastern Europeans are disappointed with the actual benefits of EU membership, while election results in countries such as Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Croatia showed increasing normalisation of Euroscepticism.
42% : The report said the threat to the European project was of a drift towards an "ethnic" understanding of Europeanness in which xenophobia - already popular in many capitals - flourishes unchecked in "the language, policies and outlook of EU politics".
41% : The report, by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF), identifies three key "blind spots" across the bloc and argues their intersection risks eroding or radically altering EU sentiment.
40% : If a growing number of Europeans conclude the EU is neither representing them nor reflecting their concerns and values, EU sentiment could collapse entirely, he warned.

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