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This is Paul Adamson and I'm in conversation with Bruce Stokes.

Bruce is the Director of Global Economic economic attitudes at the Pew Research Center.

But Bruce, Pew has just released its latest global attitude survey of 25 nations.

So you can't go into detail in every single finding that you've come across in the course of this survey.

But could you give you some top line statistics, especially as far as the European Union is concerned?

Right. We have been surveying the European population on attitudes towards the U.S. and confidence in the U.S. president and attributes of the United States since 2002.

And what we found this year was a decline in favorability of the United States and a decline in confidence in the U.S. president.

But actually, the real decline was last year.

In other words, from Obama to the first year of Trump.

Now, it further declined a little bit in 2018, but the real drop, sharp drop off, was in Europe in 2017.

And what we found was that, for example, less than a third of Germans have a favorable view

of the United States today. A little more than a third of French have a favorable view of

the United States. The Brits, slightly higher favorability, but in all of those cases, it's less

than the favorability and the view of the United States under the Obama regime. In terms of confidence in the US president,

dramatic falloffs from Obama to Trump in his first year.

For example, there was an 83 percentage point drop

in Swedish confidence in the US president

between 2016 and 2017.

You generally don't see those kind of movements and data in one year in public opinion.

It's actually rebounded by seven points in Sweden in the last year, but it's still very

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