In measures tracking public opinion about Europe in six EU nations, YouGov's EuroTrack poll shows that Great Britain has bucked the trend since January - by developing views more friendly towards the EU

The United Kingdom's relationship with the European Union has made numerous in Britain numerous times since the beginning of 2013, in particular following Prime Minister David Cameron's January 23 announcement that the Conservative Party would hold an In-Out referendum on the nation's EU membership by 2017 if his party won a majority at the 2015 general election. Since the announcement, Eurosceptic party, UKIP, has seen a surge in public support; prominent Conservatives like Education Secretary Michael Gove have said they would personally vote to leave the EU; and David Cameron himself has faced a Tory rebellion over the ommission of a EU Referendum Bill from the Queen's Speech, which sets out the years legislative agenda.

New YouGov research reveals that, in fact, the British public has emerged from the period of public debate feeling better about the EU, while public opinion in several other Western and Northern EU member states - including France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Finland - has tended, on the whole, to become more negative.

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