International Relations

The press release presents some results of July 2020 survey, which focused on Czech public opinion on the EU membership. The topics presented here are the satisfaction with EU membership and evaluation of pros and cons of the EU membership. The report contains also comparison with previous surveys.

In the opinion poll carried out in July 2020 by the Public Opinion Research Centre, questions regarding attitudes of Czech citizens towards integration in the EU were included. More specifically, the questionnaire asked surveyors about their opinion on values of democracy, equality, collaboration, tolerance, fairness, and solidarity being successfully exercised in the EU. Furthermore, respondents were asked about their views on economic, political, cultural, defense and ecological integration in the European Union. Lastly, attention was given to the belief that the EU decisions are in the interest of the Czech Republic and of the people like themselves.

In July 2020 Public Opinion Research Centre focused on opinion to the level of integration of EU a the role of Czech Republic in this process. We were also interested about Czech public's opinions to the future of the of the united Europe. The part of this survey was also question about adoption of the euro.

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.