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Europeans — especially Germans — are increasingly keen on curbing immigration and are less focused on climate change, according to a study by a Danish-based think tank.

Europe has seen a sharp rise in the share of people who say that reducing immigration should be a top government priority, according to a study published Wednesday. Germany is topping the list.

At the same time, there was less desire to prioritize fighting climate change in the same countries, according to the survey commissioned by the Denmark-based Alliance of Democracies Foundation think tank.

Nearly half of German respondents put focus on migration

Since 2022, an increasing number of Europeans say their government should prioritize "reducing immigration," rising from just under 20% to a quarter.

Meanwhile, concern about climate change was on the slide across the continent.

"In 2024, for the first time, reducing immigration is a greater priority for most Europeans than fighting climate change," the report said.

"Nowhere is this reversal more striking than in Germany, which now leads the world with the highest share of people who want their government to focus on reducing immigration — topping all other priorities — and now nearly twice as high as fighting climate change," the report read.

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[-] TheControlled@lemmy.world -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My favorite thing about arguing with racist Europeans is that they are CONVINCED they aren't racist, even though they literally just told me that Syrians are disgusting people who need to go home. Or this totally true story you just said.

[-] kaffiene@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

You have no basis to make a claim about the poster you're respinding to. Not good faith

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

TheControlled@lemmy.world (Nomen est omen?) removed any doubt you might have had about his character with this last comment.

He’s also the type of person who hears a radio alert about a wrong way driver on the Autobahn and thinks “One? There are thousands (and all of them are racists)!”

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