29/2017
2017-08-21
Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and Hungarians on Membership of the European Union
Poland is the most pro-EU of the countries in the Visegrad Group, with Poles being the most numerous and strongest supporters of their country’s membership of the European Union (88% in favour, including 52% decidedly in favour). A majority of those surveyed in the remaining countries of the V4 are also supporters of EU membership: over four fifths of Hungarians (82%), virtually three quarters of Slovaks (74%) and over a half of Czechs (56%).
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Of the four nations surveyed, Poland is the only one in which proponents of full integration are in a clear majority. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia there is a majority of those who want to be among the countries cooperating to a lesser degree. In Hungary supporters and opponents of full integration are more or less evenly split.
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The ‘Current Events and Problems’ survey (325) was carried out 1-8 June 2017 using computer-assisted (CAPI) face to face interviews on a representative sample of 1020 adults resident in Poland. The survey in the Czech Republic (CVVM Sociological Institute) was carried out 5-18 June 2017 (N=983), in Slovakia (FOCUS) 31 May-4 June 2017 (N=1012) and in Hungary (TÁRKI) 14-23 July (N=1017). In Poland, Slovakia and Hungary the samples were of adult residents aged 18 and over; in the Czech republic aged 15 and over.
