Majority of Greeks say EU moving in wrong direction, survey finds

The majority of Greeks claim that membership of the European Union has benefited their country but they also believe the 28-member bloc is moving in the wrong direction, according to a public survey released ahead of Sunday's European Parliament elections.

According to the MRB poll which was commissioned by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 64.1 percent of respondents said that EU membership certainly or probably benefited Greece, while 33.4 said joining the bloc certainly or probably did not benefit the country.

Meanwhile, 60 percent of respondents said that the EU was certainly or probably moving in the wrong direction, over 33.4 percent who remained optimistic about the outlook of the European unification project.

The same poll also found relatively low levels of trust in the EU. Only 28.8 percent of Greeks said they trust the bloc, while trust scores for the...