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2025-11-21
Views of Polish–German Relations
Public opinion concerning Polish–German relations has been subject to very dynamic changes in the period since CBOS records began. These relations were rated most highly at the very beginning of the 1990s, with positive ratings also being dominant in 2015, the last year of the Civic Platform and Polish People’s Party coalition government. The following years, when Law and Justice was in power, saw a systematic decline in the number of people who thought relations between Poland and her western neighbour were good. By the end of their rule a mere 13% of those surveyed were of this opinion. Now, two years since the last survey, there has been a clear improvement in this assessment, with a surge of 12 percentage points among those who see Polish–German relations as good and a drop of 4 points among those who see them as bad. Almost half of adult Poles (48%) see Polish–German relations as neither good nor bad, one in four as good and 18% as bad.
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More on this subject in the CBOS report.
This ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (426) was conducted using a mixed-mode procedure on a representative sample of named adult residents of Poland, randomly selected from the National Identity Number (PESEL) register. Respondents independently selected one of the following methods: Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI); Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI), respondents receiving researchers’ telephone numbers in an introductory letter from CBOS; Computer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI), where respondents filled in the online questionnaire independently, gaining access by means of a login and password provided in an introductory letter from CBOS. In all three cases the questionnaire had the same structure and comprised the same questions. The survey was carried out between 2–13 October 2025 inclusive on a sample of 901 people (61.2% using the CAPI method, 22.5% CATI and 16.3% CAWI). CBOS has been conducting statutory research using the above procedure since May 2020, stating in each case the percentage of personal, telephone and internet interviews.
