Lucie Haupenthal was the perfect partner throughout the writing process, helping steer our progress, trying to pin down our emerging insights in successive drafts, and being an amazing research assistant and intellectual sparring partner. However, the collapse of the image of the US in the eyes of many Europeans may be more shocking. Besonders für Emmanuel Macron war es eine große Enttäuschung. Only a small number of populist voters believe that the work of experts is beneficial (6 per cent of Alternative for Germany supporters; 4 per cent of Rassemblement National supporters; 12 per cent of League supporters; 3 per cent of Vox supporters). Each superpower has seen its reputation collapse in some of the countries that were its closest allies and partners.In the case of China, more than 60 per cent of French and Danish citizens claim to have cooled on Beijing – while almost half of Germans say the same thing. We asked citizens which other countries or organisations gave support and solidarity to their country as the crisis unfolded. By doing so, Strategic Sovereigntists believe that they can promote their values and preferences even in an unfriendly world.European governments and the institutions in Brussels have realised that the coronavirus crisis has created an opening for collective European action. Indeed, it is a key finding of the poll that many citizens view experts as bound up in the political process – subject to manipulation and instrumentalisation – rather than as independent, standing apart from the political fray and providing objective truth. For example, Germany prides itself on its commitment to Europe but contains far more DIYers than any other surveyed country. The polling data is, at first glance, paradoxical.On the one hand, we can see that people in all surveyed member states believe the EU responded poorly to the crisis – with majorities in all countries saying that the EU did not rise to the challenge. A ham-fisted case for integration could fuel an outbreak of anti-EU sentiment even more virulent than the one before – and not just, or even especially, in the European periphery. infographic This is not, in our view, simply one more indication of how strongly Europeans oppose Trump’s way of doing foreign policy. Frankreichs Präsident ist unbeliebt und Marine Le Pen die einzig relevante Opposition. This includes 63 per cent in Italy and 61 per cent in France. Swedes across party affiliations appear to approve of And, when it comes to support for parties, the crisis seems to have accentuated existing trends rather than fundamentally changing politics. In France, trust in experts is high only among supporters of Macron (48 per cent). Because the pandemic is a colossal disaster without a clear villain, it is unsurprising that it has provoked a stream of conspiracy theories. There are many theories about who is responsible for the spread of the virus. This paper, like all publications of the European Council on Foreign Relations, represents only the views of its authors.We promise we will never send you any content that is not ECFR related The first kind is the classic lack of trust that comes from the nature of scientific investigation: the fact that experts disagree with each other. Mutualisation was the most powerful expression of the end of the autonomy of American states.However, our polling suggests that European citizens’ feelings today are closer to those expressed by British historian Alan Milward than they are to the thrust of the In this interpretation, EU action is imperative by simple virtue of the fact that we all live on the same continent and face the same external threats.