In his blog "Behind the Scenes of Brussels, EU", Jean Quatremer, journalist at Libération, says that French Eurosceptics and Europhobics are trying to annex those who abstained after their failure in the European parliamentary Elections in getting a significant amount of people to vote for them. Eurosceptic parties did not do well at those elections. Furthermore, Eurobarometers Surveys issued last May show that, on the whole, a large majority of French people are rather supporting the European Union. Moreover, beyond words of principle, the detail of the surveys show in which domains French people think the European Union should play a greater role. Those are Research, unemployement prevention, environmental policy, economic crisis, consumer protection, social protection, energy security, education and higher education, development aid, and even in foreigh and defence policy. In other words, French people want to keep the role of the State if it loses all of his powers. For the full post, click here.