But a few eyebrows will be raised by an authoritative new survey’s findings
that the French agree they are the continent’s most arrogant people and that
the Greeks rate themselves as the most trustworthy.
The Washington DC-based Pew Research Centre polled more than 7,600 people in
eight European countries about their attitudes towards the EU, their
governments and their neighbours.
The findings throw up intriguing insights into new national stereotypes in the
wake of the Eurozone crisis, which has seen Germany take a leading role in
imposing unpopular austerity measures on the struggling economies of
southern Europe.
Everyone, including the British, agreed that the Germans were the most
trustworthy people in the EU, apart from the Greeks, who awarded themselves
that accolade.
The traditional antagonism between the UK and France is reflected in the
survey, with Britons judging their neighbours over the Channel to be the
least trustworthy and the most arrogant.
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