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European countries do not appear to feel threatened by the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union, a study of media coverage of Brexit has revealed. The study, based on coverage in 39 media outlets in France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden, found that most Brexit reporting was neutral and fact-based. Where a position was taken in a news report, it was mostly negative towards Britain's decision to leave the EU and in particular the way Britain is handling Brexit. While Europe's media follow the Brexit debate closely, most journalists displayed a lack of concern about the impact of Brexit upon their own country's national interests. The study, conducted by Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and PRIME Research between September 2017 and March 2018, concluded that Europe's media might see their role as 'bringing facts to the conversation and also keeping separatist tendencies at bay'. The volume of Brexit news was greatest in the Irish media, followed by Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Poland and Sweden. Greek, Spanish, Swedish and Irish media in particular expressed strong views against Brexit, while Italian, Polish and French media included higher shares of mixed or pro-Brexit views.