6月15日VOA聽力：布魯塞爾擔憂英國退歐將發生更加深遠的影響
The Washington-based Pew Research Centerinterviewed 10,000 people across Europe.
Their answers showed that skepticism over the EUis not confined to Britain.
France views the bloc even more unfavorably than itsneighbor across the English Channel, with just 38percent of people having a positive opinion of the EU,compared to 69 percent in 2004.
In Spain, approval of the EU has fallen from 80 percent to 47 percent.
A British vote to leave the EU could lead to demands for similar referendums across thecontinent.
“However, whether or not they'll succeed depends upon, one, what happens to the UK.
If the UK struggles, then that sets quite a powerful message to the rest of the EuropeanUnion.”
“And secondly, it depends on what happens in the Eurozone, it depends what happens inSchengen, it depends what happens with Russia.
The European Union faces several crises at the moment, and Britain is one of them.”
A British divorce from the EU would likely be lengthy and bitter, says Oliver.
“The rest of the European Union is lacking to either punish the United Kingdom for withdrawing,so there has to be an economic cost.
The UK can't withdraw and not feel any punishment, any costs and so forth, and get a newrelationship with the EU, or else that might encourage other member states to do the samething.”
Pew researchers said much of the disapproval of the EU is related to its handling of therefugee crisis.
Over a million migrants arrived in Greece in 2015; disapproval of Brussels' migrant policiesthere runs at 94 percent.
A simultaneous so-called Brexit crisis could push Europe to the brink.
“They haven't solved each crisis, they've just managed to cope and move on, and hope they'llfind a solution later on.
If several crises align at the same time, that puts the EU in uncharted territory, and that isquite dangerous.”
Former British Foreign Secretary William Hague warned Wednesday that a British exit could sowwider division.
“If we lift our eyes from our local concerns to the challenges coming our way within thiscontinent and from beyond it, then the risks of leaving are too great.
Above all, the danger of a divided, fractured and weakened West is one we must do our utmostto avoid.”
With disapproval of the EU growing across the continent, analysts say a British exit could havemuch wider consequences for Europe and beyond.
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