International Relations

In July 2020 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to confidence in European Union and international institutions. Questions focused mainly on trust in European Union in general and its concrete authorities. In connection to international institutions respondents evaluated their trust in United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

In February 2020 Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to NATO and defense of Czech Republic in general. Questions focused mainly on position of the Czech Republic between other states, its possibilities of defense against potential threat.

In February 2020 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey about NATO. Within the project were examined satisfaction with membership in NATO. 58% of Czech citizens are satisfied with the Czech Republic's membership in the North Atlantic Alliance, almost a quarter (24%) is dissatisfied.

In December survey the Public Opinion Research Centre focused on situation in Syria.

The survey examined how Czech public is interested in the development of situation on the border of Syria and Turkey, how Czech citizens perceive the impact of the situation on Czech, European and global safety, and how they evaluate performance of some participating actors in current events on the border of Syria and Turkey.

In the December survey the Public Opinion Research Centre examined a set of questions concerning the UK leaving the EU.

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November 2019 survey focused on attitudes of Czechs to some representatives in international politics. Respondents were asked to express their confidence or non-confidence in some main figures of international policy and persons involved in recent important events as well as supreme representatives of Central European countries.

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In November survey CVVM investigated how sympathetic or unsympathetic are some selected countries to the Czech public. In this survey 25 countries were selected.

The most sympathetic country among them according to Czech citizens is Slovakia followed by Austria, Sweden, Italy, France and Great Britain.

Currently, 52% respondents share the opinion that Beneš decrees should continue to be in force, 13% stood up for their cancellation, and 35% had no opinion on this issue. Another question focused on the post-war transfer of Sudeten Germans from Czech borderland in 1945-6. 41% of respondents considered this historical act to be just. On the contrary 38% marked the transfer as unjust (simultaneously majority of them claimed necessity to make a thick line behind the past) and 21 % had no opinion on this.

In the June survey the Public Opinion Research Centre put all respondents several questions concerning the assessment of the current situation in the world in terms of international relations, economics, security, conflict resolution or solving of global environmental problems, and evaluation of the activities of selected major actors (states or organizations), which have a significant influence on the development of the overall political and security situation in the world and on the overall economic situation on a global scale.

In May 2019, the Public Opinion Research Centre questioned a set of questions about the attitudes of the Czech public to receiving refugees and the situation associated with the migration crisis. Specifically, respondents expressed their attitudes to receiving refugees from areas affected by military conflicts in general and refugees from the Middle East and North Africa in particular. Part of the interview was also exploring interest in current developments around this situation and perceiving the situation as a security threat.