On December 20th 2017 the European Commission took the decision to trigger article 7 of the Treaty on European Union, and filed a motion with the EU Council to find that there was a strong likelihood of infringement of European values in Poland. If, as the next step of this ongoing procedure, there were to be a vote in the European Council on a motion to find that Poland was seriously and continuously infringing European values, which could result in future sanctions, according to Polish public opinion at least one country would stand on Poland’s side. A total of 63% of the people polled were of this opinion, and 35% believed there would be more than one such country.

Those respondents who thought at least one other country would side with Poland to vote against finding that our country was seriously and continuously infringing European values, overwhelmingly volunteered Hungary in this context (77%). A relatively large number were counting on support from the Czech Republic (22%), Slovakia (16%) and Bulgaria (14%).