EU voters oppose troop surge: poll

EU voters oppose troop surge: poll:

"Any attempt by Barack Obama to get European Union members to contribute more troops to the fight in Afghanistan is likely to face popular opposition, a new poll suggests.

Ahead of Obama's inauguration as the United States' first African-American president, the Financial Times on Tuesday published a poll suggesting the majority of people in Britain, Germany, France and Italy oppose deploying further troops.

About 60 per cent of the respondents in Germany said they would not wish their government to send more troops under any circumstances.

In Britain, the second largest contributor to NATO's mission in Afghanistan, 57 per cent said they did not want to send any more troops."