April survey was focused on attitudes of Czechs to some representatives and institutions of international politics. 69% of Czechs trust the US President Barack Obama (21% distrust him), 58% trust the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (25% not), 48% trust the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel (26% distrust her) and 21% trust the Great Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (20% distrust him, 24 % are undecided and 35 % do not know him at all).

According to the April survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre, 44% of Czech citizens are interested in current events in the Middle East and Northern Africa. 66% of Czechs expect a negative impact of these events on global economy, 60% share the same expectation in relation to security situation in the world. 27% of Czechs approve the international coalition’s military operations in Libya, 44% oppose it and 29% are undecided on this matter.

In April 2011 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.

77 % agreed that EU membership helped Czechs to work, live and study in other EU countries. 79 % said that membership increased the level of bureaucracy in Czech republic.

March survey of CVVM focused on public attitudes to foreigners. Majority (61 %) claimed that foreigners living in Czech republic should become conformed to czech cultural habits as much as possible. Another 34 % of informants said that foreigners should adapt to czech cultural habits just in some aspects. And 5 % said that foreigners should be allowed to live according to their habits.

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In April of this year CVVM investigated how people perceive the planned beatification of prior Pope John Paul II. In March and April 2011 under the auspices of CEORG, research on the subject was conducted also in Poland, Hungary and the Slovakia.

In April 2011 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.

As a part of the CVVM surveys there is a question about public satisfaction with current political situation in the Czech Republic.

March survey has dealt with a topic of employment of foreigners in Czech Republic. 55 % of Czechs think it is right to employ foreigners, 39 % express the opposite view. Support to employment of foreigners grows with degree of completed education and also with improving evaluation of living standard of respondent's household.

In April 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.

In March survey CVVM investigated Czech public's views with regard to foreigners who live in the long term or permanently in Czech Republic. 79% of Czechs think that incomers should have had the right to stay here in the long term under some conditions, 8% would support this right with no restricting conditions and 10% said that foreigners should not have any right to stay in the long term in the Czech Republic.

In March 2011 CVVM investigated attitudes of Czech public to 15 national groups that are living in the Czech Republic in significant number. The most positive relation was observed to Slovaks, Poles, Greeks, Jews and Germans, the worst relation have Czechs to Roma people.