Poll: Enthusiasm for NATO far lower in U.S. than in Europe

The public in Nordic NATO members Denmark and Norway are the most likely to think NATO still has an important role to play in the defence of Western countries, at 77% and 74% respectively. Europe’s great powers also strongly believe in the continued relevance of the alliance. More than two thirds (68%) of Brits and 62% of Germans think NATO is still important, whilst support among the French – whose country previously left and rejoined the organisation – sits lower at 52%.

In the US, by contrast, just 46% of people think that NATO is still important – although only 16% of Americans think it no longer has a useful role to play.