In March 2012 CVVM survey investigated Czech public's views with regard to foreigners who live in the long term or permanently in the Czech Republic. 54 % of Czechs see foreign citizens living in the Czech Republic as a problem, 37 % claim the opposite. But, when people should consider their neighbourhood, not the Czech Republic as a whole country, 54 % think foreign citizens are not a problem.

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In March 2012 Public Opinion Research Centre examined as a part of its survey the opinions of the Czech public on long-term or permanently residing foreigners in the Czech Republic. Specifically, there were examined attitudes whether there are too many, appropriate amount, or too few foreigners living in the country, whether foreigners should have the right for the long-term residing in the country and whether the state should allow them to settle here permanently. There were examined the reasons for the acceptance of immigrants, too.

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In May 2012 within the regular survey CVVM SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., questioned respondents about their confidence in constitutional institutions. In this month there was a question about their trust to Chambers of Parliament, Government, President, Local and Regional Councils.

According to the May survey of CVVM, 68% of people evaluate the current economic situation in the Czech Republic as bad, 25% view it as neither good nor bad and 6% consider it to be good.

In April, the Center for Public Opinion Research focused on satisfaction with life in the locality in general and selected living conditions in the vicinity of residence. 72 % of Czechs are satisfied with living conditions in their place of residence. A fifth said neutral variant. Less than a tenth is not satisfied.
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In May survey CVVM investigated how people trust to political Parties and whether they are willing to take part in elections to Chamber of Deputies. In the press release there are two different types of information: Party preference and a model of voting behaviour.
Party preferences give us information about public sympathy with political Parties in the group of citizens who have voting right and there is also included a part of citizens who will not take part in  elections or they do not knot who to vote for.

April survey of CVVM focused on public attitude and public relationships between Czech population and Romany minority.

In February 2012 in the research project Our Society there were included questions focused on opinion of Czechs about the reasons for entering public life and politicians' interest in opinion of ordinary citizens.

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As a part of its April survey, CVVM asked a battery of questions concerning the usefulness or harmfulness of the European integration in the areas of industry, politics, culture, defence and ecology. New battery of questions regarding the usefulness or harmfulness of the unification of regulations in different areas has also been included into the survey. On the whole, Czechs consider the European integration and the unification of regulations to be useful, but there are considerable differences with respect to the particular areas of integration and unification.

In April 2012 CVVM investigated on the membership of the Czech Republic in the European Union. Informants were asked to evaluate positive and negative efects of membership and the impact of membership on chosen areas of public life.