International Relations

In a survey that was conducted between the end of January and the end of the second decade of March 2023, the Centre for Public Opinion Research surveyed a set of questions concerning the attitudes of the Czech public towards accepting refugees from Ukraine. The respondents specifically expressed their attitudes towards the admittance of Ukrainian refugees and the possibility of their permanent settlement in the Czech Republic. The survey also included a mapping of interest in current developments around this situation.

In a survey conducted in period since September to the beginning of November 2022, the Public Opinion Research Centre focused a set of questions on the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

In a survey conducted in period since the end of March to the beginning of May 2022, the Public Opinion Research Centre focused a set of questions on the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The survey examined how citizens evaluate measures of Czech government supporting Ukraine in war with Russia, how they see eventual steps of international community aimed at stopping of the conflict, to which extant they are afraid of eventual use of nuclear weapons by Russia, how they see eventual incorporation of Ukraine into NATO and EU, and what they personally were doing in reaction to current situation.

In Spring 2022, the Public Opinion Research Centre questioned a set of questions about the attitudes of the Czech public to receiving refugees from Ukraine.

In the opinion poll carried out in Spring 2022 by the Public Opinion Research Centre, questions regarding the current situation in Ukraine were included. More specifically, the questionnaire asked surveyors about their concerns for the situation in Ukraine, and their perception of it as a security threat to the Czech Republic, Europe, and the World.

In the spring 2022 Public Opinion Research Centre carried out a survey about NATO. Within the project were examined satisfaction with membership in NATO. 73% of Czech citizens are satisfied with the Czech Republic's membership in the North Atlantic Alliance, almost a fifth (19%) is dissatisfied.

Spring 2022 survey focused on attitudes of Czechs to some representatives in international politics. Respondents were asked to express their confidence or non-confidence in some main figures of international policy and persons involved in recent important events as well as supreme representatives of Central European countries.

In the spring of 2022 the Public Opinion Research Centre included a block of questions connected to NATO and defense of Czech Republic in general in its survey. Questions focused mainly on ability of the Czech Republic to defend its own sovereingty, attitudes towards defense expenditures, and exaluation of army's quality in comparison to developed western countries.

75% of Czechs against 15% think that the U.S. in their foreign policy prioritize their own power and economic interests, and 59% against 28% believe that U.S. do not take into consideration the opinion of the world community. According to 42% of Czech citizens the current foreign policy of the U.S. represents a threat to today’s world, while 40% have the opposite opinion. The opinion that in relation to undemocratic regimes the United States is entitled to use military force is shared by 24% of Czech citizens, whereas 64% oppose it.

In November/December survey people have evaluated relations of the Czech Republic with some neighbouring or globally most important countries.