Europeans eager to go to the polls, but in a reactionary mood

Sixty-eight percent of European Union citizens intend to vote at next month's elections for European Parliament, with Greece, at 71 percent, being among four member states with the highest expected turnout, behind Italy (77pct), Denmark (76 pct) and Germany (73 pct), a new report has found.

Published on Friday, the Bertelsmann Stiftung foundation's "Europe's Choice" report, however, also shows that the majority of voters will be turning up at the polling station in order to express their dissatisfaction with rather than support for a specific party or policy.

In Greece, 36.7 percent of respondents said they are not at all happy with current government policy, 34.5 percent are somewhat unhappy and just 18.4 are satisfied. Similar levels of dissatisfaction are recorded in Sweden, Hungary, France and Great Britain.

Greeks are also overwhelmingly unhappy at how...