Two-thirds of Europeans look nostalgically back into the past. In a survey published today by the German Bertelsmann Foundation, 67 percent of respondents believed that the world had been better in the past. Anyone who is nostalgic is, according to the survey, more often politically right.
The study polled nearly 11,000 people in the European Union in June. According to the Foundation, the survey is representative of the EU and the five largest member states Germany, France, Italy, Poland and Spain.
Italy most nostalgic
According to the survey, the nostalgia is most pronounced in Italy. There, 77 percent said the world had been better in the past. The least was the
Share in Poland with 59 percent.
More than half of the Europeans (53 percent), who are nostalgic, see themselves politically rather right of the middle. Those who think the past is better than the present are often skeptical about immigration, according to the study.
More than half of the nostalgics (53 percent) are convinced that immigrants „take jobs away“ from the locals. Three quarters (78 percent) even agree with the statement that „immigrants do not want to integrate themselves into society“.
