Why does europe hate the uk

Facebook Twitter Email. Not just of the Italian team -- who eventually won the game on penalties -- and not just of the devastated England team. But of the scenes at Wembley, in London, where the game was being held. Some fans booed the Italian national anthem; others broke into the stadium. Some whiled away the hours before the match by getting drunk, trashing Leicester Square and, in the case of one apparently intoxicated fellow, putting an ignited flare up their butt.

The global outrage was palpable -- these England fans behaved appallingly, thank goodness Italy won. It's an extreme version of the same story that plays out wherever the English go en masse on vacation.

While the image of the "ugly American" is known across the world, many countries, particularly in Europe, experience the brunt of the "boozy Brit. The stereotypical English person abroad speaks English -- slowly, loudly and deliberately -- instead of learning the local language, searches out English restaurants as they don't trust "foreign food," and obliterates themselves with booze by the afternoon.

By the evening, their boorish behavior is on full display. But are they really that bad? Or do people just love to hate the English? Tom Jenkins -- who's keen to specify that he's Welsh -- thinks it's a bit of both. The full English. The Spanish town of Magaluf, pictured here in , is popular with British tourists.

There's no denying, though, that the English do get in trouble abroad. Every summer, stories of bad behavior -- usually linked to drinking, brawling and general licentious antics -- abound. Magaluf, on the Spanish island of Mallorca, is nicknamed " Shagaluf " thanks to the tendency of young Brits to fly in for a week of debauchery.

Things can get so bad there that in the local authorities had to start a campaign begging them not to get undressed or defecate in public. The people who come here tend to be a little older, but they're looking for a taste of home. Hence the proliferation of bars and restaurants offering fry-ups of bacon, toast, egg, baked beans for a traditional "full English" breakfast -- all day long. Oh, and good old English beer. I think they will thrive once we start unpicking that.

As a young person, I would like to open up my own business in the future. When the Brexit vote happened in , I was still in university. There were two years before I graduated. But I knew because of that I wanted to experience living in Europe before that right was taken away.

I never intended to stay here long-term. From fishing quotas and free movement to mobile roaming charges and pet passports — much will change on January 1. New trading rules mean immediate changes and strategic policy shifts could be on the cards, analysts say. But they see that China now has more aircraft carriers, more missiles and more hi-tech fighters, while the UK is trapped in the wallows of Brexit.

They are weak. We have nothing to learn from them. Today, no one really cares about Boris Johnson , but since he was the one who called for Brexit at the beginning, Chinese people will be interested to see how he can turn his commitment into reality. As told to Lily Kuo. First, I should say that we French Europeans are grateful to our British friends for making sure one word has exited our vocabulary: Frexit.

For Brexit has made Frexit impossible. By the time she launched her campaign for the presidential election, the Brexit referendum had already had one effect: the Front National leader no longer dared push her Frexit argument any more, confining herself instead to attacking the euro and advocating a return to the old franc.

Even this proved a bad idea. In the last TV debate between the two rounds of the election, Emmanuel Macron crushed Le Pen by proving how incoherent her idea of a French paradise outside the eurozone actually was.

But for us, this has been the only silver lining of the Brexit saga. Watching the long descent of Westminster into something resembling hell has been an exhausting experience. Some of us once found Boris Johnson funny; we long ago stopped laughing. Now that Rolls-Royce looks more like a dodgem.

We have come to dread seeing old British friends, now so obsessed with Brexit that it is all but impossible to talk of anything else. We wondered how it was possible for such brilliant public servants and such a legendary diplomatic service to be unable to come up with better plans and bring them to the negotiating table.

All our myths, in short, have been destroyed. Instead of taking back control, the Brits seemed to be losing their minds. Then France had its own crisis : the gilets jaunes. It was violent, ugly, destabilising.

The UK version of a widespread crisis of representative democracy? Less violent — but, in the end, more destructive. Watching this final episode, of the election of a prime minister by 0.

And you will never solve it without leaving, one way or another. So please, go now. Check the freezing temperature outside, fix your problem. And then come back. The door will stay open, because we do want you back. Just calmed down a bit. As told to Jon Henley. It has been difficult to write with the eye of a neutral observer about an event, Brexit, that can feel like a personal affront. After Berlin, London was my second home town, a place where I had gone to university and lived for four years.

Yet the vote to leave made me realise that perhaps there was a side to Britain I had overlooked. I learned a lot since then — not just about Britain, but also our blindspots as reporters. All three raise questions of social inequality that we have failed to address until now. The problem is that we are still looking for ways to resolve them. People are more disillusioned about politics than ever, and yet we are nowhere nearer to cleaning up the mess.

Never in the history of the EU have we seen such popular demonstrations in favour of Europe. Nor should we resign ourselves to the notion that the EU without the UK is set in stone for ever.

Is it not the hallmark of democracies, unlike authoritarian regimes, that voters reserve the right to change their minds? The new president of the commission, Ursula von der Leyen, wants to involve civil society in a new initiative to discuss the future of Europe. We must demand that citizens and associations from the UK as well as from Ukraine and the Balkans are allowed to participate in one way or another. I will confess to something else. For a long time, the supremacy of English as the de facto European lingua franca seemed excessive to me.