Keep in mind that leaders' popularity often correlates with the time of their mandate. Newly elected officials tend to be a little higher. In contrast, those going to elections have a lower approval (until they start to campaign, playing on people's amnesia and un/conscious fears and biases).

Y'know, l'd say Macron being close to the bottom is hilariously unsurprising, but then again the source for this video, Morning Consult, literally only tracks like 13 european countries out of the 30+ in the continent, so who knows who actually deserved to be mentioned here... *_[stares at Greece and Portugal]_*

Yeeeey, my home country is finally leading Europe in something 🥲

Surprised Mitsotakis isnt here. Us Greeks love to hate on him and blame everything going wrong on him but somehow he still won the latest elections by a considerable margin and he didnt make the list here.

I just noticed that a British person who is 7, has seen more prime ministers during their lifetime, than a German who is 40, has seen chancellors during his lifetime.

Some sort of Austrian far right leader is rising? I’m sure that won’t end badly.

EU countries: we don't like our government, they'd better fix this or we elect someone else Belarus: hold my potato

As a Czech, i think that it should be noted that Fiala is certainly much more liked than Babiš, the previous PM. I wonder what the question on the poll was, because i think that most people think about Fiala's government as a resounding "meh". But then again, i live in a city so i might be in a bubble. Czechs also generally love to complain and most people would probably rank anybody who is the PM low just because there is any issue and that person is in power at the moment.

I’m honestly stunned that Rishi has a 28% approval. Who are these people?

The worst part about Fiala's leadership is that he promised change from populist Babiš and marketed his SPOLU coalition to be the only one capable of it. People believed him and then he delivered shitty ministers, scandals and everything you would expect if you actually knew and followed the history of his party. People are fed up about all the insane things they promised during the campaign not being fulfilled (which were literally impossible). While his ministers Stanjura (finance) and Blažek (justice), among most others, seem like the most incapable people ever, the latter of which was recently found to have personal ties with the far-right (color me surprised). Now it seems like Babiš is gaining more and more power at the expense of SPOLU and the next election is gonna be a major clown fiesta. Even though the current and last government is filled with horseshit, people still refuse to vote for liberal parties like Pirates (centre-left) and STAN (centre-right) that have an actual chance of making a difference if they get enough support.

The title is "least popular", the thumbnail is "worst". Those aren't necessarily the same thing.

Being more unpopular the Sunak is impressive and tbf to Germany basically all major choices of his predecessors have blown up in his face

Petr Fiala does not deserve that ranking. Also, he wasn't "one of the first" to go to Ukraine. He WAS THE FIRST to go to Ukraine, along with Poland and Slovenia's prime ministers. Your wording is misleading. He is in a 5-coalition government with constant battering by the opposition party. Apparently, his low key, intellectual, professor style (he was a professor) is not the kind of boisterous personality that is needed today, and people ignore him or don’t listen. I am from the USA, but I read Czech Radio daily and have for years. If I could import Fiala to the USA, I would. The opposition is being fueled by huge misinformation campaigns, some clearly Russian instigated. Also, he former president and prime minister Babis, who lost to Peter Pavel, is constantly mounting loud, tasteless but popular attacks, much of which are senseless, because he is a Trump-like crook billionaire with nothing else to do, apparently. The Czechs love their freedom of speech and complaining is part of their personality. . As an observer, I initially thought a parliamentary government with multiple parties and coalition governments sounded fantastic but I can now see the party divisions make it as impossible to get things done as we have here in the USA and this is why it appears Fiala does not deliver his promises. I would have put Macron at the bottom of the list because it strikes me that he is unpopular internationally and domestically though he is certainly better than his alternative. I am surprised Slovakia didn’t make it on the list as it seems they, too, have an unstable prime minister seat reminiscent of GB. And Poland's ruling party seems to have taken over he information space making it polarized.

A citizen asked Olaf Scholz to finally take action and do something. Scholz replied that he was already doing a lot. That shows what Scholz looks like. He had announced that he would take over the helm after the summer break. But right in the first session, a Green politician blocked a law by the FDP, just as the FDP had previously blocked the Green Party. Surely the problem will be solved, but the view remains.

Thank you!

Mateusz Morawiecki (polish PM) with 33% approval and 60% disapproval ratings is also one of the least liked leaders in Europe

As someone who lives in the U.S.A., I appreciate these videos because I would otherwise be "ignorant" to the outside world. It helps keep me informed (to an extent) to what's going on in the world.

What's interesting is there isn't really a consistent party that's unpopular - whether it's progressive, conservative, moderate, they're just all unpopular. I think it's just people putting too much faith in governments to begin with, and thinking that they can change things, when in reality they're at the whims of the same global forces that everyone is and only have so much power to make change.

Macron has never been popular in france. The only time he was approved of was the first few months of his presidency in 2017. After that for various reasons he was always disapproved, even falling to 23% approval two times (still better than Holland).

As a Czech, and someone who voted for the current government, and was very happy when learning the election result, I can offer my perspective on our government and our PM. It has been a disappointment in several ways, most notably on the economic front. We are currently running big deficits and have high inflation, and this government was elected partially on a promise to fix these issues. While it had a lot of bad luck, because the war started just a few months into its term, it's handling of it was far from ideal. The feeling is that the finance minister is incompetent, and that the mostly centre right parties in the coalition are unwilling to significantly touch their electoral base - upper middle class and entrepreneurs. This means that their financial reforms are not going far enough, since they don't want to raise taxes on these people, and at the same time the budget cuts impact poorer people much more, which obviously leads to discontent. Add to this that our tax system is broken and unfair, where normal employees pay something like 45% effective tax rate, but many people, especially richer ones, working as "freelancers" pay only about 8%, while many times doing essentially the same job - I am a software engineer working on normal work contract, and many of my classmates work as freelancers, paying almost no taxes compared to me. Plus there is severe housing crisis, our flats are some of the most expensive in relation to wages in Europe - a flat in Prague cost something like 16 times the average yearly wage in the city, and inflation on groceries has been high, pushing many people to the brink. All that sad, while I would say I disapprove of the current leadership I will still vote for the current government in the next election, just because the opposition is immeasurably worse, since any such government would include the fascist SPD, and I would vote for a rotten fish against them. In this it's quite similar to the situation in the USA with Trump.

Petr Fiala does not deserve to be so low. Inflation started to rise thanks to the previous populist government and it kept up for so long because the governor of the Czech National Bank (who is a close friend of the previous populist prime minister). refused to raise interest rates.

I hope you will cover the looming crisis following the meet-up of the Czech justice minister Blažek with former presidential advisor Nejedlý, who is under investigation from the Czech Security Information Service for his ties with the Russians and supposed leaking of classified information TO the Russians. Blažek is actually from Fiala's party itself - he was the one who pushed Fiala into the Civic Democratic Party in the first place, following the party's association with various dubious figures from the Czech underground all the way to the 90s; Fiala was meant to restore the party's credibility and make it seem like the return of decency and honesty in Czech politics). When confronted with why he met up with Nejedlý and other notoriously untrustworthy figures, he alleged that they met up by coincidence, as he was forced into the restaurant there were in by a storm. The coalition partners seem to be wary of any actions against the Civic Democratic Party, as this would be seen as playing into the cards of the former PM Andrej Babiš, who, even though the current government is deeply unpopular, is much more of a security risk for the Czech republic overall. So far, only accusations have been thrown, comments have been made about how it is unacceptable, no one from the government coalition has actually pressured Fiala into taking steps against Blažek, which is surprising considering there were also some deeply problematic questions about his involvement in some judicial processes FROM the position of the minister of justice - precisely something the Fiala coalition campained against leading up to the election. As I said, nothing has happened yet, but Czech Twitter is exploding at the moment, all government parties' posts are being bombarded to step up and demand Blažek's resignation in the comments and the organisers of the 2018 300.000 strong protests against Babiš are ringing all the bells (hopefully in preparation for a big demonstration if nothing is done, even though as stated earlier, this would be problematic as it would play into Babiš's cards). Many are even questioning why Fiala has been so reluctant to do anything, hypotheses about Blažek having some dirt on all members of the coalition have been springing up and some have even questioned whether the Civic Democratic Party got rid of their infamous ties with the mafia and hasn't just put up a new face (Fiala) instead and continued business as usual - some have called Blažek 'Don Pablo' in the past. TL;DR - Czechia might have a big crisis of confidence going forward after new scandals concerning its justice minister, please cover xoxo

I don't think these polls can be compared like this.... There's a difference between considering a leader as Meh and not being huge fans but still voting for them and thinking they're terrible at their job.

Germany’s energy policy has been an utter disaster for the German people.

I love how not even the leader with the most (apparent) approval rate is above 0. We just hate and mistrust politicians so much.

4:25 I think I should be NETHERLANDS parliament voting intentions and not as shown in graph Norway. Copy paste gone wrong apparently.

I think some of the problem is that when coalitions spread politically from far left to center right you wind up with an indecisive government with infighting problems. In short forming a government out of dislike for one end of the spectrum will not make for good governance.

I'm surprised of how high Macron is, I thought he will be lower than 25% considering how hated his policies are ; and that most people voting for him just don't want to have the alternatives parties in charge

At 4:32 The label of the graph shows "Norway - National Parliament Voting Intention", I think this should be The Netherlands, instead of Norway. Small oversight of a very informative news channel.

I'd like to see a follow up video to see which European leaders are on the top of the list (or at least less unpopular than those at the bottom), aside from Meloni in Italy.

This makes me feel that Hungary is doomed. The inflation was 25%, now around 18%, triple of the euro zone. And Orban is still loved by many.

It's interesting that every one of these leaders has a big (60%+) majority disapproving of them Maybe there is something wrong with the system to elect representatives if everyone, everywhere disapproves of their elected leaders. Of course it's easy to say so, but really hard to find a solution

The last Czech prime minister, Babiš, was also the least popular in Europe, and the next prime minister is Almost certainly gonna be either him or Fiala again, unless one of them dies. Love our politics

Ah, but a Mr. Vladimir Putin of Russia has recently revealed an amazing 98% approval rating, which I'm sure we can all agree is completely genuine and not at all a fabrication.

I enjoy your videos very much - they are always very informative which is great. Something that could be worked - spelling.... it is "Communication", not "Comunication" - 7:13

Honerable mention, Ulf Kristersson, Sweden is by no means popular. Third biggest party in Sweden, but still he is the prime minister because it was the only solution since 4 out of 8 parties that together get most votes then have to vote for a candidate. He's been keeping a very low profile since he became prime minister.

1:10 You should note that in general these three parties are also vastly different from a social standpoint. The SDP is a workers party, but is in that socially-liberal. The Greens while more left leaning, are known for unadvantages compromises which in the end hurt everyone except and thanks to the plans shown at 1:10 the more richer companies, as the tax relief is sold on the idea of boosting startups, but would mean a tax break for the rich. And the FDP is fiscally conservative. Very far away of being liberal. The Greens are also in charge for economics & adressing the climate crisis while the FDP is in charge for financing. The reason why this is so unfavourable, the FDP constantly blocks ideas and laws from the other two governing parties. In total the FDP ministries are blocking 30 key promises that have been written down in the coalition contract. After greenlighting the cannabis bill the FDP tried to push through with their tax bill which after months of infighting and reducing the household to boost family income, digitazation of the Infrastructure and constantly blocking efforts to legalize cannabis, the Greens had it and blocked the bill proposal from the FDP. In addition to that: You barely hear anything from the SDP. Neither the party nor chancellor Olaf Scholz are displaying themselves in the public eye. The German coalition is a lot like a toxic relationship where both are the culprits and the victims. While I would agree personally with most of the pragmatic approaches by the government to honestly do something (unlike the prior governments), in the end the incompetency by the SDP and FDP and the compromise solutions by the Greens are much more critically portrayed in the public eye and upheld in the media. Edit: Grammar.

As a czech, the inflation is really crazy atm and it's really messing up day to day life, everything keeps getting more expensive and wages just don't go up.. Had to change jobs, because what used to be enough to cover costs of living just isn't anymore

What I always find is that leaders tend to be less popular if they've been in power for some time or if the economic situation isn't good in the country, both of which usually have a negative impact on leaders, regardless of how good they are or what policies they take, they usually end up being a scapegoat for how things are. Still, with decent policies, they can limit the damage to themselves. As for the Italian leader being the most popular, well, she's in the honeymoon phase, once that starts to fade away, she will become a lot less popular unless she delivers a miracle on the economy, which seems highly unlikely, where Italy will return to growth but more or less standard growth, that will be enough to hurt her standing in Italy as time goes on, after all, many leaders tend to be popular for the first 2 years in, especially if from a new party, but then the people will expect solid results and in her case, she got into power because Italians want change, if little or nothing changes in a big way on the economic front, her popularity will likely nose dive, probably in time for the next election.

For Støre, while a lot of it has been recent turmoil I personally feel a lot of it comes from near radio silence through most of it, thus leaving the public feeling the government is doing nothing. In addition Støre has been a controversial leader for labour anyways as a son of a businessman, and generally more towards the centre/right than previous labour leaders.

Common Czech Republic W 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 heading for that #1 in Inflation next

Mark Rutte really has a lot more going for him which significantly increased the dissatisfaction. A famous quote here in The Netherlands is "Daar heb ik geen actieve herinnering aan", referencing all the times Rutte "conveniently" didn't recall stuff he said or did in the past. Another one which became quite a mess was a note regarding a member of the house, Pieter Omtzigt, and "functie elders" that was caught on camera during the negotiations after the last election. Also some sloppy texts on an old Nokia phone and very bad communication from our government during the start of the Covid pandemic really made a lot of people fed up with him...

As Czech i had feeling Fiala would be here but it Still suprised me

Can you do a video on Turkey please and make it about anything you want

Unpopular =\= Bad leader. In a democracy, passing unpopular measures are a fact of life. Just because the majority of the people like a policy doesn't necessarily mean it is the right thing to do. Just because the policy is unpopular, doesn't mean that it is the wrong thing to do.

It is funny how regarding problem and inflation people in the richer EU countries are unhappy, if they come to Bulgaria and see prices are the same like in Germany but here minimum wage is 400euro a month .. maybe they will feel a little bit happier.

You should do this on the world

How about doing a video on Europe's most popular leaders?

I thought Orban would’ve been the most popular and also the most hated. 😂

Was disappointed to see Morawiecki missing in the video, however after checking in the tracker, I'm relieved to see him right behind Scholz, with just 1 pp of approval more. All is right in the world.

For those who wonder, how did Petr Fiala get into government if noone liked even their program is because of coalition. They created a coalition SPOLU, where 4 big parties overthrown the fifth ANO. And so there we have SPOLU, where Left and Right govern (or try to) together. It is not going well, everything takes 4x as much as it did before.

I think you accidently switched #2 and #3. You said that #3 from the bottom had a -40% net approval rating which is *lower* than Macron's -39% net approval rating.

Fiala and his goverment have had the massive misfortune of coming into power after two subsequent left-wing, populist goverments, which increased welfare spending tremendously while not adjusting goverment revenue accordingly, thus running budget deficits in times of economic growth and leaving the country with huge inflation, driven by skyrocketing energy and food prices. The two left-wing cabinets also did nothing to adress structural issues of the Czech economy, like loosening up the over-saturated job market, investing into research and development, increasing productivity in private sector, pushing forward modernization and digitization of public administration, reforming the financing of pensions etc. Then the current cabinet headed by Fiala inhereted this mess and is no surprise they are struggling since they have to get the economy out of stagnation, lower inflation, lower food and energy prices, deal with the largest wave of Ukrainian refugees per capita in Europe and do all that while saving the public finances from collapsing. Add to that chaotic communication, some not that competent ministers and the fact that the goverment is comprised of 5(!) different parties and you get why Fiala is so deeply unpopular while being a decent politician all things considered. It's also important to note that one of the main reason why food prices have increased so much while being already quite high pre-war is that Czech agricultural industry, food industry and retail is run by bunch of oligopolies that control the whole market as well as all level of the supply chains, so they hugely profit from increasing prices and providing citizens with low-quality food. And one of the biggest oligopolies, Agrofert, is owned by the former prime minister and current leader of the opposition, Andej Babiš, who is battering the goverment tirelessly for failing to curb the increasing food prices and inflation, despite the fact that his bussines is one of the main culprit in increasing food prices, Babiš himself profits massively from them and as a prime minister of the previous populist goverment is directly responsible for the huge inflation, collapsing public finances and bunch of other stuff. Buf because he also owns one third of all Czech media and raised welfare spending while in power, he leads the polls and people keep voting for him, ignoring that he's primarily to blame for their economic and living hardship.

While national leaders like Prime Ministers and Presidents are of course accountable to the people in that country. It would be interesting, especially for such a ranking, to see how these leaders hold up in popularity EU wide.

With no 1. Spot i will agree we have very confusing government so its no wonder why we dont talk about politics in my country

Do one for the most popular

Where is Klaus Iohannis from Romania?

I feel like the Italians are about to wake up to some hard truths very soon.

How can we compare those numbers though? Its always different people voting on them

Maybe it would also be interesting to do one with the most popular leaders. Makes things a bit less negative focussed as well.

4:23 Norway - National Parliament voting intention... really? When talking about Netherlands?

I think its hard to measure, since most European Countries do not have a two party system, anyone alligned with a party that is not the leader's party will somewhat disapprove in any such poll.

With the economy in shambles it’s a tough time for any leader. But some are still worse then others

French leaders shouldn't even be considered with how low their approval rating are historically lol.

I'd be worried if I were Fiala, the Czech have a proud tradition of defenestrating unpopular rulers

Just went to Czeckia and its one of the cheapest countries ive been too. The cost of living seems so low but idk about the salaries tho

What about Orban ?

Just so you know, "Støre" is *not* pronounced "Store". "Ø" is *not* a variation of the letter "O" but a *separate* letter in the Norwegian alphabet.

Difficult times strain the economy and call for unpopular policies and big bold changes. This is difficult to convey to the people, that's why (usually right winrg) populists do well. It's very easy to blame politicians or things like immigration. People are looking for a scapegoat or a party/politician that's providing them with one.

7:22 I am dissatisfied with TLDR News' "Comunication"

8:18 You are confusing “hypothesis” with “theory”. The interesting thing is that the course is called correctly “hypothesis testing” and you say that you test your “theory”…

Some people don't recognise how good they have it. That's why most leaders are unpopular

There's a clear difference between "The worst leaders" and "The least popular leaders" I always love your video contents, but don't make such clickbait titles seriously, there's no point in doing so

remember that sunak was not elected by the population or even his own party members.....

We are missing Mette Frideriksen on that list.

I was expecting Viktor Orbán to be on this list. I'm quite surprised he isn't on it.

Pedro S..?

The pronunciation of the Norwegian minister's last name isn't Store which sounds like the word for large so please check the pronunciation of letters you don't know since it's just lazy to assume that Ø/Ö is O or Å/Ä is an A

3:58 - 27k people, amigo.

Rishi would be grossly offended to be classified as a " European" leader !!!

europeans be like: i will again vote for the party that made my life worse because i dont want the evil far right party in government

i think differentiating between "worst" and "least popular" is important because they're not quite the same

I'm surprised of Norwey. Prices of oil are up in the sky. I thought, they are drowning in money.

Macron explosion !

I thought Iohannis would be on the list.

We (Czechs 🍻) used to call ourselves the leaders in middle Europe, and we were in some respects. We are now becoming a debt-driven economy based on quantitative easing, subventions, and redistribution. The analogy to drug additives is fitting here. There would still be time to stop this trend if we wanted. But the mob of 60% wants more drugs instead.

Within 3 days!

Scholz is not liked, because he comes out of his room once a year and says something bland and useless and leaves again, meanwhile Linder puts the building on fire and Bearbock and Harbeck are not able to say no and had a "become corrupted any%" speedrun.

Fiala, not really. The previous PM Babiš was liked because he gave generous handouts from the public purse, at a time where there was no money in the budget. So, he borrowed the money, raising the debt-to-GDP ratio from the mid 40% to 66%. Great! I mean, who wouldn't love him for that? 😂 Certainly, not the people receiving the money. Now, the time has come to pay these back, and tighten the belt. When people elect a demagog in the first place, the next in the line collects the blame. I feel sorry for Fiala for collecting Babiš's junk. It only shows people are corrupt, in getting money they shouldn't get, and then be unhappy when they have to pay it back. Babiš's voters are mainly retirees so people, who expect to get money from the government, not those paying for taxes necessarily.

I suspect after the UK general election in 2024 we'll be seeing a Labour PM in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, and/or possibly with the SNP. It's become a lot harder for Labour to win general elections since losing support in Scotland after the Great Recession. Scotland and Wales are highly important for getting an opposition party into government. The only time in history that England alone would have had a Labour government was in 1997 with Tony Blair. In every other election the majority of consituencies vote Conservative. On the bright side, the SNP have been losing support in Scotland since the independence referendum, despite what foreign and some left-wing media outlets would have you believe. Support for the SNP has fallen in consecutive elections since 2015 - yes, "despite Brexit." Expect to see Starmer in Number 10 next year. Will be interesting to see how they will govern, but we're overdue a change (and no, I don't vote Labour)

do this with south east asia

Macron’s approval ratings is actually very good compared with our previous Presidents (Chirac, Sarkozy and even Hollande who was below 10%). 27% is an achievement especially for someone who has been President since 2017. Having said that, I am so happy he cannot do a third mandate and cannot wait to see him leaving the presidency. You are more than happy to send him to you.

I wish we in America had a system which would support more than two parties

Finlands Petteri Orpo has entered the areena.

Mrs. Doubtfire 😂😂😂

To me a prime minister being unpopular seems to be a sign of a healthy parliamentary democracy. It's nations where their political leaders have an approval rate over 70% one should worry about

When looking at approval ratings Scholz isn't looking to good. But when ranking him next to oher politicians he's Germany's second most popular politician after Pistorius.

Portugal is for sure missing

It's best to resign prior to an event if you care about popularity.

7:22 Seriously guys, another typo / spelling mistake? While they aren't a huge issue, I think it is pretty worrying. If you aren't able to suitably utilize spellcheck or a second set of eyeballs for proofreading, then how do I know that the figures you are quoting are accurate, or that you aren't otherwise misrepresenting something unintentionally? In regards to Rutte, there is a reason he's got the nickname 'Teflon Mark'. Despite being the head of so many governments with even more scandals, he is somehow always the one who manages to avoid taking any responsibility of note, and I think that explains the strong dislike. Maybe individually, people are willing to excuse a mistake and put the majority of it on the shoulders of other ministers and government personnel, but after so many times, there is a clear pattern and people are just fed up with his nonsense. The other crises just add to that mess.