This is how Europeans look to the fight against the pandemic

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Most people in Europe are dissatisfied with their respective governments' fight against the corona pandemic.

According to a survey carried out by the polling institute YouGov on behalf of WELT AM SONNTAG in nine European countries, 52 percent of those surveyed believe that their government should have taken more measures.

14 percent consider the restrictions introduced so far to be exaggerated, only 19 percent believe that the measures are exactly right in their country.

The figures are also at this level in Germany, although the survey was carried out here before the lockdown was tightened recently.

In other respects, too, people in Europe have a similar view of the crisis - regardless of some very different strategies against the pandemic: in all countries they are most afraid of an infection and a complicated course of the disease, around half of those surveyed cited this as one of their greatest fears .

By contrast, only 20 percent fear a long-term lockdown, and only 13 percent fear persistent travel restrictions.

According to the survey, the corona crisis has so far left less deep marks in Germany than in other European countries.

In this country, 27 percent of people state that they have already suffered corona-related income losses in the past few months.

In Spain, however, 48 percent say this, in Poland 43 percent and in Italy 39 percent.

In Sweden, where there has not yet been a real lockdown, this value is only 19 percent.

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In the Scandinavian country, where most of the schools and daycare centers remained open, only 28 percent of people say that the Corona crisis had a negative impact on their children's learning success.

This value is significantly higher in all other countries, for example 47 percent in Germany.

With a view to Christmas, people in the countries that have so far been particularly hard hit by the pandemic are more cautious than the Germans.

In Germany, only 55 percent of those surveyed say that they will spend the holidays with their closest family.

In Spain this figure is 77 percent, in Belgium 78 percent and in Italy even 85 percent.

For the representative survey, YouGov interviewed around 10,600 people in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Italy, France, Sweden and Great Britain between December 2nd and 9th.

The survey was commissioned by WELT AM SONNTAG as part of the Leading European Newspaper Alliance (LENA), a partnership between leading media from seven European countries.