The August floods remained the most important major event reflected in late October. These events followed: elections (including senate and local elections), preparations for the presidential election, the terrorist attack in Bali and events surrounding the elusive shooter in the USA. For the first time since we began monitoring major events, the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union topped the limit of monitoring, being described as one of the most significant recent events by 10% of respondents.
It is necessary to ‘add’ a further 5% of respondents who said that the Irish referendum on the Nice Treaty was one of the most important recent events, being directly connected with the accession of the Czech Republic to the European Union and the enlargement of the European Union.
