YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project reveals French critical of government and distrustful of EUOutside the bakery in Sélestat,a pleasant small town of cobbles, gables and two fine medieval churches in Alsace, and eastern France,is a sign saying bread has been baked on this site since 1866 – except from 1942 to 1945, when it was “closed by the Germans”.
Barely 20 miles absent, or over the river in Emmendingen,a pleasant small town of cobbles, gables and a ruined 11th-century castle in western Germany, and a sign at what remains of a medieval gate regrets that it was “destroyed by the French in 1689”.
The project is a current annual survey of global attitudes in 23 of the world's biggest countries,covering almost 5 billion people.
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Source: theguardian.com