What do Europeans feel most attached to?

[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]

[Universe]

Another study : https://www.businessinsider.com/surv...mselves-2016-6

[RogueState]

I'm surprised that Sicilians are not more attached to their region.

[sean]

Spoiler!

There's a huge regionalistic area stretching from Dresden to Sardinia. Interesting how you can see regional attachment in more pro-independence parts like Bavaria, Catalonia, Basque, Flanders.

However, many Basques, especially the most nationalistic ones, would say that they are more attached to "Euskal Herria", that is different from the Basque Country region in Spain and it also covers Navarre and Iparralde (French Basque Country).

Andalucía in southern Spain has the highest level in Spain for the three attachments (the region, the country and to Europe). This is quite strange actually.

For France: there's probably quite a bit of regional variation here, but for the four that are apparent: Brittany, Corsica, Alsace are obvious ones. Aquitaine may be a bit more surprising as there's going to be some intra-region variation.

I'm glad to see that the Dutch finally poldered in the Ijsselmeer, expanding both Friesland and Flevoland in the process.

The pattern in Germany doesn't surprise me much. Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia (the entire Swabian-Franconian belt) have a strong regional identity. While most of those states which identifies with Germany are from that/those regions which were incorporated to Prussia before the wars of the 1860s.

Bavaria was it's own kingdom in solid opposition to Prussia for most of its existence before it joined Germany. The Schleswig-Holstein was under Danish rule before the wars of 1864. Mecklenburg was neither a part of Prussia. Saxony was it's own kingdom (not part of Prussia) until 1871.

Hungary as a whole is pretty eurosceptic, but I bet the kind of people who feels attached to Europe tend to be concentrated in urban areas, and tend to be somewhat alienated by the more conservative bent of the rest of the country.

Budapest is much more liberal from the rest of the country so it makes sense that they identify more with the EU than with their country at least.

[Blondie]

Hungary as a whole is pretty eurosceptic, but I bet the kind of people who feels attached to Europe tend to be concentrated in urban areas, and tend to be somewhat alienated by the more conservative bent of the rest of the country.

You mean EU sceptic? They aren't in general, neither the Orbán voters. The only EU sceptic party is the radical right "Mi Hazánk Movement" but they are not so popular.

Budapest is much more liberal from the rest of the country so it makes sense that they identify more with the EU than with their country at least.

Yes Budapest is such liberal like Berlin. The reason is the hungarians from Budapest are mostly magyarized germans, jews, slavs etc, and most peoples have significant foreign ancestry too, that's why they are more pro-Brussels than Pro-Hungary.

[Mortimer]

You mean EU sceptic? They aren't in general, neither the Orbán voters. The only EU sceptic party is the radical right "Mi Hazánk Movement" but they are not so popular.



Yes Budapest is such liberal like Berlin. The reason is the hungarians from Budapest are mostly magyarized germans, jews, slavs etc, and most peoples have significant foreign ancestry too, that's why they are more pro-Brussels than Pro-Hungary.

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[Tooting Carmen]

Well surprise surprise, relatively few people feel mroe attached to Europe than to their own country or region.