Across the EU, the European Parliament still has higher approval ratings, on average, than national parliaments. Although the trust gap has narrowed somewhat in recent years, even the continuing recession, which is often blamed on EU-imposed austerity and the crisis in the eurozone, has only marginally reduced the European Parliament’s advantage over national parliaments.
首先，尽管许多人指出欧盟与其公民距离太远，但民调一直显示，对主要欧洲机构的公共信任度仍比国家机构高。放眼欧盟，平均而言欧洲议会的通过率仍比国家议会高。尽管信任度差距在近几年中有所缩小，但即使最近的衰退——这通常被归咎于欧盟所实施的紧缩和欧元区危机——也只是略微降低了欧洲议会对国家议会的优势。