Share of respondents agreeing that far-right want their country to leave the EU 2024

Among voters who did not vote for far-right parties, 66 percent of respondents in Poland, 63 percent of respondents in the Netherlands, and 59 percent of respondents in Austria believed that the main far-right party in their country would take their country out of the European Union. This is a growing concern in recent years, as far-right parties have been on the rise across Europe since the 2010s, with the most successful parties being in Hungary, Poland, and Italy, while all the included countries have seen the vote share of their far-right increase. 

In Sweden, France, and Romania a greater share of far-right voters believe that their naitonal far-right parties want to leave the EU than for voters of non-far-right parties. This perhaps reflects that far-right voters in these countries are more keen to leave the European Union, at least when compared with countries such as Poland and Hungary, where only around a fifth of far-right voters believe their preferred party wishes to leave the EU. This form of 'hard' euroscepticism - wanting to leave the EU outright - is often more popular in wealthier EU states, as their countries are net contributors to the EU budget and receive greater migration flows than other member states.