On Wednesday 8 June, Pew Research Center published results of a survey held in 10 countries in the EU which confirmed the negative trend in Europe when it comes to declining trust in the EU. According to the research, merely 51% of the people have a favorable view of the EU, while a large 47% has an unfavorable view of the EU. Significant differences are seen between countries. The rising Eurosceptic sentiment takes place in Europe in the context of the refugee crisis, while still slowly recovering from its financial crises and just two weeks before the UK will have a referendum on leaving the EU, which could lead to a domino effect and further speculation on the disintegration of the EU if the UK would leave, as confirmed by an earlier report of VoteWatchEurope in April. 

The leading party HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) of the current coalition that is governing Croatia for 5 months now together with Most (Bridge of Independent Lists) announced it would hold a no-confidence vote soon against the Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic. Just a week before, the Prime Minister had called upon his Deputy Prime Ministers from HDZ - Tomislav Karamarko - and Most - Bozo Petrov - to resign. This move by the Prime Minister was prompted by the infighting between the two, as Most wanted Karamarko to resign because of corruption allegations of his wife. The largest opposition party SDP (Social Democrats) have stated they would support to no-confidence vote in order to have snap elections. Recent polls indicate SDP would win new elections, although it could lead once again to an unstable coalition, especially as an anti-system and anti-globalization party called ''Human Shield'' (Zivi Zid) might enter the Parliament as well.

Local elections took place on 5 June 2016 in Italy, during which voters got to decide as well who would be their mayors in Rome and other big cities. In the first round, it turned out that the anti-establishment, populist and Eurosceptic M5S (Five Star Moment) made a strong appearance across the country, and especially in Italy's capital Rome where most of the election's focus has been, also because of a corruption scandal which led to the resignation of the former PD (Social Democrats) mayor. It means a surge in the support of the populist party, as the support for the governing PD (Social Democrats) has been declining nationally, which is being led by Matteo Renzi. It could imply bad news for the referendum on constitutional reforms to make Italy's political system more stable and that is to be hold later this year in autumn.

On 2 June 2016 the German Parliament passed a resolution in which it recognized the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1916 committed by Ottoman Turkish forces. It stated it held responsibility for these massacres as well since they were aligned with the Ottoman Empire at the time. The resolution has led to outcry in Turkey, that still has not recognised these events as a genocide. Turkish President Erdogan reacted fiercely and threatened there would be consequences for Turkish-German relations as he already summoned the German ambassador in Ankara. The move could further undermine the EU-Turkey refugee agreement as well, which was already under pressure following the resignation of the Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu earlier on 5 May that brokered the deal.

On the 1st of June Croatia officialy gave approval to the opening of the chapters 23 and 24 negotiations on Serbia accession to the EU. Member states of EU considered that Serbia is ready t open those chapters. Serbia proposed to solve the serbian-croatian issues in the regional context. Croatia blocking opening of these two chapters justified it by non-respecting the Croats minority rights in Serbia and made an objection for serbian judiciary system. It expected also that Serbia better cooperates with International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The opening of those two chapters will take place in the end of June. 

On the 1st of June member states of EU decided to extend the mandate of EULEX mission to Kosovo for two more years. Initially, EU rule of law mission was about to last until 14th of June 2016. Rule of law and security were the main areas as those which need still European support. Moreover Kosovo-European negotiations about the future of the mission started. General aims of the mission is to support Kosovo authorities in the issues of police, judiriary and customs.