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Across the 10 EU countries the Pew Research Center\u00a0polled<\/a>\u00a0in 2017, a median of 50 percent say they are\u00a0dis<\/em>satisfied with the way democracy is working in their country, compared with just 48 percent who are satisfied. Such disgruntlement is not universal. The picture varies markedly from country-to-country: More than seven-in-ten in Sweden (79 percent), the Netherlands (77 percent), and Germany (73 percent) are pleased with their current democratic system, compared with one-in-four or less in Spain (25 percent) and Greece (21 percent).\u00a0The Spanish figures precede the secessionist vote in Catalonia.<\/p>\n\n

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