According to an international survey, support for Poland leaving the European Union has reached 25 per cent of surveyed voters.
That is the highest level ever recorded in a poll since the country joined the bloc in 2004, while those wanting to stay in is now at a record low of 69 per cent.
The latest Eurobazooka poll was commissioned by French magazine Le Grand Continent and published on December 3.
It revealed a sharp rise in euroscepticism in Poland, with as many as a quarter of Poles currently supporting the idea of their country leaving the EU, one of the highest results in the bloc.
Support for Poland remaining in the EU has fallen from 92 per cent in 2022 and 77 per cent in 2024.
The survey did not provide any answers as to the causes for the growing anti-EU sentiment.
The growing scepticism towards the bloc’s perceived meddling in internal Polish politics, which has caused the Polish Right to become more eurosceptic, is cited as one of the likely reasons by commentators.
Opinion surveys have also shown that EU policies, such as the migration pact and the Green Deal, are deeply unpopular in Poland.
Of the countries surveyed, only France showed a higher level of support for leaving the EU (27 per cent) and lower number for remaining (67 per cent).
On a pan-European basis, an average of 19 per cent of respondents want to leave the EU, while 74 per cent declare a desire to remain within the EU.
The strongest support for EU membership was found in Portugal and Spain, where 90 per cent and 89 per cent of respondents, respectively, wishing to stay. In Germany, 78 per cent of the population declare a desire to remain.
Only one political party in Poland, the right-wing Confederation of the Polish Crown led by Grzegorz Braun MEP, has openly proposed “Polexit”.
That party has now reached the level of 6 per cent to 10 percent in opinion polls. It came after Braun’s surprising showing in the presidential election this spring in which he polled over 6 per cent of the vote. It means the party may be needed as a coalition partner by the other right-wing groups, the Conservatives (PiS) and Confederation, after the 2027 parliamentary elections.
PiS and Confederation have become increasingly sceptical of the current course the EU is taking and have argued that the community should be a union of sovereign States with most powers remaining with the members.
Attitudes toward the EU have become one of the defining features of the right-left divide in Polish politics.
The Right is in favour of the sovereignty of member states and the centre-left, including Tusk’s present government, are supportive of increased European integration and growing powers of EU institutions.
