In late April, the YouGov polling organization asked people in eleven European countries what they believed the two most important issues facing the EU are today. Steven Hayward of Power Line has a table of the results, which accurately summarize the tabular data found here at a YouGov site.
Immigration ranked first in all but two countries, chosen by between 35% and 53% of the respondents. Those countries are Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Lithuania, and Greece. Immigration was chosen second most often in Spain and Poland.
Campaigning, Donald Trump tapped into a feeling common in many developed countries, not just here. It's the feeling (a) of being overrun by poorly socialized economic refugees wanting a handout, and (b) of lacking the national will to get control of borders.
N.B., Hungary was not included in the survey. As noted earlier this month, Hungarians found the national will to wall out Middle Eastern refugees. EU bureaucrats in Brussels were predictably aghast. Having gotten control, I'll bet Hungarians would have ranked "immigration" a lesser problem, no longer among the top two.
