#rebuildingtrust
The Vienna Policy Conference, October 29-30, 2015, will delve into one of the most important trends driving change in European politics: the dramatic drop in public trust in many political institutions. Policy researchers, activists, leading European thinkers, and political figures will discuss new research and analysis of the causes and consequences of the trust gap across the European continent. Debating Europe and openDemocracy will be covering the event and its follow-up, and we continue the series with the perspective of Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, principal investigator in a report on integrity and trust in Europe for the 2017 Dutch EU presidency.
Boris Johnson and Roger Gifford launch Lord Mayor's Summer Cycle Challenge, 2013. Flickr/ MichaelBowles/Rex Features. Some rights reserved.Until the latest refugee crisis, the Eurobarometer question on attitudes towards migration would have been discarded in any sociology classroom, as it actually prompted respondents to concede that migration was needed to cover the EU’s demographic deficit before measuring their genuine opinion about it[i]. Only in 2015, when things got out of control, did EU pollsters, famous for allowing commissioners to write unprofessional questions, allow migration to be raised as the number one concern in the regular Eurobarometer survey.
