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Kofi Annan and Pope John Paul Top the List of Most Popular World Leaders in Five Largest European Countries
Wednesday June 30, 4:32 pm ET
ROCHESTER, N.Y. and LONDON, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey by HI Europe conducted among the five largest European countries finds U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is the most-admired world leader, followed by Pope John Paul II. It also finds that U.S. President George Bush, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair are the leaders least admired by Europeans.
These are the results of a five-nation survey of adults conducted by HI Europe, based on 2,330 interviews in Britain, 2,018 in France, 2,078 in Germany, 2,012 in Italy, and 1,382 in Spain. The surveys, which were conducted online between June 3 and 8, 2004, were designed to be representative of all adults in each country.
Kofi Annan tops the list of leaders about whom Europeans feel positively in Britain (39%), France (54%), Germany (67%) and Spain (51%). In Italy he comes second to Pope John Paul, with 52% and 78% respectively feeling positively towards them.
Pope John Paul II comes first in Italy (78%) and second to Kofi Annan in Britain (31%) and fourth in France (39% behind Kofi Annan, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, and Prime Minister Luis Zapatero), fourth in Germany (33%, behind Kofi Annan, President Jacques Chirac, and -- marginally -- Luis Zapatero), and third in Spain (45%, behind Kofi Annan and Luis Zapatero).
Spanish Prime Minister Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is in third place, ahead of all the other elected leaders in the list, but only marginally ahead of Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder. He is particularly popular in his native Spain (49%) and France (41%) and least popular in Britain (15%).
French President Jacques Chirac, who is tied overall with Gerhard Schroeder, is most popular in Germany (49%, higher than his 36% in France) and least popular in Britain where only 15% feel positively towards him.
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who is tied with Jacques Chirac, is most popular in France (54%), compared to only 24% in his native Germany, and least popular in Britain (16%).
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