Political

The report presents some results of April 2013 wave of the continuous survey, which concerns the EU membership. The topic presented is the evaluation of the impact of EU membership on the living standard of households and on various domains of public life.

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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 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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In March 2013 CVVM survey investigated Czech public's opinion on the extent to which various institutions and groups influence political decision-making.

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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.

Czech citizens are critical when talking about political culture of most of politically active people. The exception are members of Municipal Councils. In this case prevails positive evaluation (57%/34 %) . One of the worst evaluation got the political culture of members of Chamber of Deputy (12%/86 %).

According to about three quarters of Czech citizens (77 %) political arguments, problems and scandals are common and occur in other democracies too, although major part of the addressed respondents (81 %) expressed their opinion that these argumentations and scandals discredit us abroad. Significant part of Czech citizens (88 %) agreed that there is a need to inform public about the problems, argumentations and scandals, because the politicians need to be under control of public. Public opinion of political culture is also expressed in the opinion, that the political disputations and scandals serve only to settle one's account (this opinion is held by 70% of the respondents). More than half of the respondents (56%) think that the problems are exaggerated by journalists.

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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 March of this year, respondents of the Public Opinion Research Centre evaluated the urgency of solving in some areas of public life.

In April 2013 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 the Chambers of Parliament, President, Government, Local and Regional Councils.

In March 2013, CVVM asked questions concerning the topic of corruption. Questions in the survey pursued the view on how widespread is taking of bribes among Czech public officials and the opinion on the level of corruption in different institutions and areas of public life.