Ms Lorna Hayes:

Briefly, last year we had a stand-alone question on the EU's response to the Israel-Gaza situation and more than 60% were dissatisfied. As the Senator said, this is obviously playing a role I suppose in the context of that level of dissatisfaction. We could see the drop last year. Of course, there are multiple issues. We can see migration, like all the other issues, including the cost of living and housing, so we cannot just pick out one issue, but that did play a huge role. We could see it in our poll last year and it is embedded in another question this year, so it obviously is significant. On values – and this may also be relevant to the Senator's question – 50% agreed that the EU upholds its values, but around one third do not agree. We cannot interpret this exactly. We list the values in the question, but it includes human rights, so part of this could be linked to the double standards and the EU's position on Israel versus its response to Russia. We are on the 17th round of sanctions against Russia but there are no sanctions yet against Israel. I am sure all these factors do play in. We can see there are multiple concerns, but this is also a significant concern.