Press Release: Spring 2011 Standard Eurobarometer: Europeans more confident about the economy

Europeans are starting to be more optimistic about the economy’s outlook with more people saying that the worst of the crisis is behind us, according to the Spring 2011 Eurobarometer, the bi-annual opinion poll organised by the European Union.

43% of Europeans think that the crisis’s impact on the job market has already reached its peak. (see Annex). That’s one percentage point more than the in previous survey in autumn 2010 and 15 percentage points higher than in spring 2009. Europeans are also increasingly asking for EU action and stronger European cooperation to tackle the crisis and avoid future problems.

Nearly 8 out of 10 Europeans think stronger coordination of economic policy among EU Member States would be effective in tackling the economic situation.