As elections near, polls show Europeans feel disconnected from Brussels

By Anna Nicolaou BRUSSELS (Reuters) - With just over a week to go until European Parliament elections, two separate polls on Monday suggested around two-thirds of Europeans feel their voices are not heard in Brussels, although trust in the European Union is rebounding from record lows. Only 37 percent of Europeans believe their voice counts in Brussels according to a poll by Eurobarometer, a public opinion service of the European Union. Just 29 percent of those polled by the Pew Research Center said the same thing, a separate poll released on Monday showed. In a vast May 22-25 election covering 28 countries, as many as 350 million people will be able to vote for members of the European Parliament, the bloc's only directly elected body.

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