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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Crises have split European voters into five ‘tribes’, survey suggests

Composite, from top left clockwise; a doctor delivers the covid vaccine, a businessman looks in dismay at stocks, a Ukrainian tank prepares for a Russian assault, a climate protestor holds up a sign, and in the centre: people crowded on a small boat
The polling suggests 2024’s European parliament and national elections will be fought over attitudes to five major crises. Composite: Guardian Design/AFP/Getty Images/ Universal Images Group/EPA/AFP/Alamy

Europe’s voters are no longer divided into left or right, pro- or anti-EU camps, a survey suggests, but into five distinct tribes whose conflicting concerns are likely to dominate nearly 20 elections across the continent this year.

The report argues that Europeans’ lives have been affected by five major crises in recent years - the climate emergency, the 2015 migration crisis, global economic turmoil, the war in Ukraine and Covid - and suggests voters in European parliament and national elections this year will focus on the one they feel most concerned by.

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