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While an increasing number of EU citizens are fearing for their jobs during the economic crisis, they also expect the EU to act as a protective shield, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey.

65% of the Irish believe the EU carries "a positive image", according to a survey published on Tuesday (24 June), which contradicts suggestions that the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland amounted to a widespread public defiance about the benefits of EU membership.

Media organisations or Parliamentarians should be allowed to write some of the questions posed to EU citizens in Eurobarometer polls, suggests Jacques-René Rabier, the Commission official who introduced the surveys thirty years ago in an interview with EURACTIV.

Media organisations or parliamentarians should be allowed to write some of the questions posed to EU citizens in Eurobarometer polls, suggests Jacques-René Rabier, the Commission official who introduced the surveys thirty years ago in an interview with EURACTIV.

A large majority of Europeans approve of the EU's regional policy focus on helping the bloc's poorest regions catch up with the rest of the EU, although citizens in the eastern and central European member states are more aware of the policy's benefits, according to a recent poll.

National media talk too little about EU affairs and people are not well informed about what is happening in Brussels, according to citizens interviewed in an EU-wide poll.

European institutions suffered a big loss of trust among EU citizens in the last six months, despite citizens' support for EU membership reaching the highest in over a decade, according to a Eurobarometer poll published on Tuesday.  

Public opinion research is increasingly employed by politicians not just during election periods, but also to ensure public backing of important policy proposals. The Commission's revised strategy on communication seeks to introduce new methods of using the Eurobarometer, as public opinion research adapts to new communication technologies.

The European Union is looking to upgrade its relations with neighbouring countries, particularly in the areas of economic co-operation, energy and migration, without opening full membership perspectives. In order to discuss the policy, the Commission invited its eastern and southern partners to a Brussels conference.

The latest Eurobarometer, published on 18 December 2006, shows a slight fall in support for the EU. Paradoxically, in France and the Netherlands, support for the rejected draft European Constitution has risen dramatically.

A survey of Europeans' physical-activity habits shows that only 15% are active in sports and that the average EU citizen spends more than six hours per day seated.

At a stakeholder conference in Madrid on 27 October, Commission Vice-President Margot Wallström underlined the need for more public-opinion research. She advocated the establishment of a new independent observatory for European Public Opinion.

Mobile phones and high-speed wireless internet are on the way up in European households.
 

Eurobarometer polls show different attitudes towards enlargement and reveal lack of knowledge.

In his first address to the European Parliament as EU President, Finnish prime minister Vanhanen kept the door open for new countries to join the EU. A new poll indicates that an increasing number of EU citizens have a different view.

The latest Eurobarometer shows that 52% of Europeans do not want Turkey to join the EU while 53% do not think that the EU is listening to them. There is also a general decline in confidence in the Commission and the Parliament. 

All EU member states have made considerable efforts to work through their backlog in transposing EU legislation, the new Internal Market scoreboard says. The EU-10 have in many cases done better than the EU-15.

A survey conducted among EU-15 citizens living in cities shows that the vast majority are satisfied with their quality of life.

The latest Eurobarometer survey looks behind the figures after the French and Dutch referenda on the Constitution in an attempt to shed light on why citizens voted as they did.

Europeans want ethics to play an essential role in scientific research and demand harmony between the methods and goals of scientific research and moral and ethical principles, show two recent Eurobarometer surveys.

A new Eurobarometer survey has confirmed that EU citizens give priority to protecting the environment over economic competitiveness.

More Europeans prefer employee status to being
self-employed. Steady income, stability of employment and
"being safe" even in unfavourable economic climate
are cited as the main reasons for not becoming one's own boss.

Commissioner Wallström presented the EU's Autumn 2004
Eurobarometer on 10 December. The poll shows broad support for a
European Constitution and a split between 'new' and 'old' Europe on
further enlargement.

A recent Eurobarometer survey shows that fewer people in the new Member States have a positive image of the EU than those in the EU-15.