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A European "generation gap"?
One of the widely discussed patterns of the UK-referendum vote is its demographic distribution. Some surveys find that voters older than 65 were more than twice as likely to have opted for “leave” than those younger than 25 years.* Demographic differences with respect to perceptions of Europe are not unique to the UK. A recent poll surveying people in 10 EU countries similarly suggests young people tend to have more favorable views on the EU than older respondents (here defined as + 50 years). In six out of ten surveyed countries, the “generation gap” is actually larger than 10 percentage points. Italy stands ... (full story)