Political

In May 2014 CVVM SOÚ AV ČR investigated whether respondents trust to selected  politicians. They were given a list with 23 names of top politicians who represent political parties present in Chamber of Deputies.

According to the May survey of the Public Opinion Research Centre, 55 % 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.

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In May 2014 within the regular survey CVVM SOÚ AV ČR, v.v.i., questioned respondents about their confidence in constitutional institutions. In this month there was a question about their trust to Chambers of Parliament, President, Government, Local and Regional Councils.

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.

In the May survey the Public Opinion Research Centre has focused on the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament.

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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