Inflation and the cost of living remain the top concern
So just the effect of energy price increases then?
And housing, as usual.
They obviously didn’t asked me…
More like fatalism of some sort. It’s not like we can stop driving to work or cooking or doing the laundry…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The question of energy supplies, which were dramatically upended in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has dropped from the top five worries of European citizens, according to the spring edition of the Eurobarometer.
Inflation and the cost of living remain the top concern for 27% of all respondents, closely followed by the international situation (25%), a catch-all term that mostly refers to the Ukraine war.
Immigration, on the other hand, has jumped to the third position (24%), a rise that can be attributed to a series of recent tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea and the persisting logistical problems that many governments face in the reception of asylum seekers.
The change in perception comes after several consecutive months of decreasing gas prices: trading at the Title Transfer Facility (TTF), Europe’s leading hub, closed on Friday at €33 per megawatt-hour, a far cry from the three-digit territory that haunted consumers for most of 2022.
The bloc’s successful response to the energy crisis was the result of a variety of personal measures, policy initiatives and external factors that worked together to rebalance the supply-demand mismatch and mitigate speculative behaviour.
The new Eurobarometer shows broad support for some of the actions that helped weather the storm: 85% of respondents think the EU should invest “massively” in renewable systems and 82% believe the bloc should cut down its dependency on Russian fossil fuels “as soon as possible.”
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