In May survey CVVM investigated public opinion of number of foreigners living in the Czech Republic and whether foreigners should have chance to live in this country in the long term and how they should accustom to our living conditions. As a part of the press information there is a list of answers sorted according to socio-demographic characteristics of population sample and according to answers of a question whether a respondent knows any foreigner personally.

Within the May survey realized by CVVM SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i. respondents were questioned about their confidence in constitutional institutions. This question is used to ask about trust to both Chambers of Parliament, Government, president, Regional and Local Councils.

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

Regular surveys focused on public trust to constitutional institutions and on satisfaction with political situation help to monitor development of public attitudes in the long-term.

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.

Within the March survey people have been expressing their sentiment about moral acceptability or unacceptability of some kinds of human actions and behaviour. The survey included 25 items representing different deeds which the respondents evaluated within the ten-point scale where 1 meant "never acceptable" and 10 "always acceptable".

Within April survey CVVM investigated how respondents are satisfied with living conditions close to their home. Respondents were also asked to evaluate following living conditions close to their home: cleaning of the streets; waste disposal; gas, electricity and water installation and canalization; road conditions; security; job opportunity; level of wages in this area, level of schools and of health care; level of shops and services, environment, cultural and sport opportunities, places where to relax; chance to have a meal for reasonable prices, and good system of public transport.

As a part of March CVVM survey there was a question investigating citizens' trust to Courts, Police, Army, Media, Labour Unions and Churches. The press information covers also a longterm development of trust to these public institutions since 1993.

In April survey CVVM investigated subjective opinions of Czechs about living standard of their households. First questions were focused on objective evaluation of this topic, respondents were asked to say whether they suppose their household to be rich or poor and whether they had problems to live on from their salaries and whether their household was in financial crisis last year. Following question was used to investigate whether it is difficult to meet some life requirements such as foodstuff, clothes and shoes, housing, water and energy, furniture, common non-food products, cultural and sport activities, health care and education.

In April CVVM survey respondents were asked to evaluate exercise of selected values in the EU. All respondents were also questioned, whether according to their opinion democracy, co-operation, tolerance, justice and solidarity are being exercised in EU. Furthermore respondents expressed their opinions about usefulness or harmfulness of European integration in areas of economy, politics, culture, country defence and ecology.

In April survey CVVM was also interested in public evaluation of some social conditions in the Czech Republic. Our interviewers asked respondents how they evaluate this situation in following areas in our country: chance to get a flat, financial conditions to start a family, chances to have children, social security for the elderly, chance to work or to be employed, access to health care and access to education.

In April survey CVVM SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i. focused on topic European integration and EU membership of the Czech Republic. We were interested in how Czech citizens are satisfied with membership of our country in EU and whether they are proud of being members of EU. Within the April survey we asked respondents, whether they think that decisions made by EU will be in the Czech Republic interest and whether these decisions will be in the interest of people, such as themselves.