CEORG January 2003 Omnibus Survey on EU Accession Referenda in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland
The latest public opinion research, conducted by the Central European Opinion Research Group Foundation CEORG in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland in the beginning of January 2003, looked into the intentions of the public to participate in a referendum on their countries’ accession to the European Union, into voting intentions, and into the evaluation of the results of accession negotiations. In all three countries, the research was conduced on representative samples of population.
In all three countries, the number of those that would definitely or probably participate in a referendum on EU membership reaches over 70%. For Hungary (63.9% would definitely participate and 10.2% would rather participate) and Poland (62.7% definitely and 10.3% rather), these numbers are stable since the May 2002 CEORG research. While the Czech Republic reaches the same sum of those that would definitely or rather participate as Hungary and Poland, the division within this group is quite different. Only 42.3% of Czech would definitely participate (34.9% in May and 45.8% in December 2002), and 37.4% claims to rather participate (28.1% in May and 31.6% in December 2002). “This difference comes from the Czech culture”, explains Adela Seidlova of CVVM. “The Czechs are more sceptical and they do not like to give a definite commitment. So if they can, they prefer to choose ‘rather’ to ‘definitely’ more than Poles or Hungarians do.” The amount of undecided is between 8.6% in the Czech Republic and 15.6% in Hungary. There was a significant drop in the number of undecided in the Czech Republic since May 2002 (21.8%).
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