International Relations

April survey focused on attitudes of Czechs to some representatives in international politics. Respondents were asked to express their confidence or non-confidence to some main figures of international policy and persons involved in recent important events as well as supreme representatives of Central European countries.

According to the April survey of Public Opinion Research Centre, only 19% of Czech citizens approve the adoption of euro as legal tender in the Czech Republic, 76% oppose it.

April survey of CVVM asked questions concerning the trust of people in the institutions of the European Union. Besides the trust in the EU as a whole, citizens' trust in the European commission, the European Parliament, the chairman of the European Council (president of the EU) and the representative for the joint foreign policy (ministry of foreign affairs) have been included into the survey. Two questions also referred to the trust of people in the North Atlantic Alliance and the United Nations organisation.

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Part of Aprils’ survey of CVVM was the topic of European integration. Two batteries of questions were included into the survey. One focused on the view, whether the values of democracy, equality, cooperation, tolerance, justice and solidarity are applied in the European Union. The second one concerned the opinion on usefulness or harmfulness of European integration in the areas of economy, politics, culture, defence and ecology. Apart from these two batteries we also asked questions, whether respondents believe that integration of the European Union is in the interest of the Czech Republic and in their own personal interest.

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The report presents some results of April 2014 wave of the continuous survey, which concerns the EU membership. The topics presented here are the satisfaction with EU membership, the pride of people in context of being citizens of European Union and their evaluation of pros and cons of the membership. The report contains also comparison of development of Czech public attitudes towards EU membership.

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According to the April survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre, 52 % of Czech citizens are interested in current events in Ukraine.Respondents were also asked about their evaluation of the current activities of various groups in the conflict,about active participation of international community in solving the situation and trust toward selected Ukrainian politicians.The survey was conducted during the escalation of the cricis in eastern regions.

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According to the March survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre, 64 % of Czech citizens are interested in current events in Ukraine.Respondents were also asked about their evaluation of the current activities of various groups in the conflict and about active participation of international community in solving the situation.The survey was conducted during the escalation of the Crimea crisis.

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According to the February survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre, 40 % of Czech citizens are interested in current events in Ukraine.Respondents were also asked about their evaluation of the current activities of various groups in the conflict and about active participation of international community in solving the situation.The survey was conducted before the last escalation of the conflict.

In January 2014 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey concerning NATO, its necessity as a military-political organization and the influence of existence and conduct of NATO on the security of its members, the relationships within and outside the organization, on the peace and stability and on the treatment of terrorism threat.

In December survey CVVM asked respondents some questions about Benes decrees.

Currently 50 % respondents share the opinion that Benes Decrees should continue to be in force, 14 % stood up for their cancellation, and 36 % had no opinion on this issue.

Another question posed was about the expulsion of Sudet-Germain people from Czech borderland in 1945-6.