Respondents also backed higher investment in European security, with 57 percent supporting more “spending on defense and security.”
Trump effect
Though the survey was conducted before the latest bout of hostility from Trump, the U.S. president was already seen as a negative force.
Other polls have shown that Trump is unpopular on the continent, even among supporters of the right-wing populist parties he sees as allies.
About two-thirds of respondents to the FGS Global survey said they were pessimistic about Trump’s impact in the year ahead on the global economy (69 percent), peace and security (64 percent) and their own country (64 percent).
Asked if Trump deserves the Nobel Prize, 77 percent said he does not.
FGS interviewed 11,714 adults from 23 European Union countries between Nov. 10 to Nov. 23, 2025. A minimum of 500 interviews were conducted in each of the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Interviews were conducted online and the data weighted to be nationally representative of each country by gender, age, income, region and socio-economic group. Data from a nationally representative poll of 500 adults is accurate to a margin of error of +/- 4.4% at 95% confidence.