Most Germans Would Abandon Euro If They Could: Poll
November 4, 2000 - 0:0
BERLIN Most Germans would want the euro scrapped if that were possible, according to an opinion poll conducted for the German television news channel N24.
The Forsa poll found that 56 percent of those asked would like Germany to quit the European single currency, AFP quoted N24 as saying.
The poll found that 41 percent of those asked wanted to stick by the euro despite its extensive fall in value against the dollar.
Opposition to the single currency was more marked in Eastern Germany than in the West, according to the poll. In the east, 69 percent wanted to abandon the euro.
The pollsters questioned 1,006 people Tuesday and Wednesday, and the margin of error was reckoned to be plus or minus three percentage points.
The Forsa poll found that 56 percent of those asked would like Germany to quit the European single currency, AFP quoted N24 as saying.
The poll found that 41 percent of those asked wanted to stick by the euro despite its extensive fall in value against the dollar.
Opposition to the single currency was more marked in Eastern Germany than in the West, according to the poll. In the east, 69 percent wanted to abandon the euro.
The pollsters questioned 1,006 people Tuesday and Wednesday, and the margin of error was reckoned to be plus or minus three percentage points.