2023-07-10 13:11:00
According to the Eurobarometer survey published on Monday, only 35 percent see the EU as a whole “positively” – the EU average is a whole 45 percent. Just under a third of Austrians want to admit more states into the Union. Europe-wide half is for it.
Almost a third of the domestic respondents reject the Union in the survey as negative. Since the last Eurobarometer, rejection has risen once more by four percentage points to 30 percent. Across the EU, only 18 percent of those surveyed felt the Union was so negative.
The Austrian respondents are also very skeptical regarding close European cooperation in the military field: In the Eurobarometer survey, only 56 percent were in favor of a common EU security and defense policy. Across Europe, approval is significantly higher at 77 percent.
support for Ukraine
On the other hand, the willingness not only to provide humanitarian and financial support to Ukraine remains high everywhere: Around two-thirds of Europeans and at least half of those surveyed in Germany support Ukraine’s accession candidate status. 86 percent of the European and 73 percent of the domestic survey participants want to continue taking in Ukrainian displaced persons. Two-thirds of Europeans support military aid for Ukraine, but only 40 percent of Austrians.
Overall, the respondents are more optimistic regarding the future: more respondents described their own living situation as “good” than in the survey four months earlier. Here the Austrians are more positive with 51 percent than the EU average with 40 percent. Around a third of all respondents expect the economic situation to deteriorate in the next twelve months; the rest expect a better or stable situation.
Concerns regarding rising prices
Europeans and Austrians continue to be most worried regarding rising prices and the cost of living: 61 percent of Austrian respondents see this as the biggest problem in their own country. 45 percent of our European neighbors agree. In Austria, this is followed by climate change and migration, each with 21 percent. In the ranking of the most pressing issues in Europe, inflation (27 percent across the EU and Austria) is ahead of the “internal situation” (25 and 24 percent respectively) and immigration (24 and 23 percent respectively).
The “Spring 2023 – Standard Eurobarometer” (EB 99) was carried out from 31 May to 21 June 2023 in the 27 EU Member States. In the EU, 26,425 EU citizens were surveyed.
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