International Relations

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 2013 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.

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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.

According to the April survey of Public Opinion Research Centre, only 18% of Czech citizens approve the adoption of euro as legal tender in the Czech Republic, 77% oppose it.

In January 2013 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 January 2013 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey about NATO and national defence.

In October survey CVVM investigated how sympathetic or unsympathetic are some selected countries to the Czech public. In this survey more than 20 countries were selected. The most sympathetic country is Slovakia followed by France and Sweden.

71% of Czechs against 17% think that the U.S. in their foreign policy prioritize their own power and economic interests, and 44% against 40% believe that U.S. do not take into consideration the opinion of the world community.

More than two fifths (42%) of Czech citizens were at least partly interested in American presidential election.

November survey focused on attitudes of Czechs to some representatives of 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.