00:00Ten years on, Europeans are more positive about the EU than they were during Brexit.
00:09In 2016, Britain's vote to leave the European Union sent shockwaves through the continent,
00:15and the British weren't the only ones thinking of cutting the cord.
00:18A decade later, that picture looks different.
00:21Polling from Pew Research shows favourable views of the EU have increased since the Brexit vote.
00:26Across the eight countries Pew has tracked since 2016,
00:30median favourability towards the EU has risen from 49% to 62%.
00:35And in the UK, favourable views have risen from 45% when voters decided to leave to 67% today.
00:42Why is this?
00:43Numbers suggest that support for the bloc has strengthened,
00:46but across significant generational and political divides.
00:50In Italy, for example, 80% of adults under 35 view the EU favourably,
00:54compared with 56% of those over 50.
00:57Politics also matters.
00:59In Poland, 86% of people on the left have a positive view of the EU,
01:03compared with just 42% on the right.
01:05At the same time, support for parties critical of Brussels has grown.
01:10For example, Germany's far-right AFD party increased its results in federal elections,
01:15from 12.6% in 2017 to 20.8% in 2025.
01:20But a decade later, with war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic and the experience of Brexit itself,
01:26support for the EU appears higher than when Britain's decided to leave it.
01:29Thank you and have a very high-pitched for everyone in Poland here.
01:29And as long as you see in the UK,
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