The EU Integration Office
EUROPEAN ORIENTATION OF
THE CITIZENS OF SERBIA
TRENDS
June 2007
Belgrade, 31st June 2007
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www.seio.sr.gov.yu
VELIČINA UZORKA
DATUM
Referendum question
Answered by: All respondents
If Referendum with the question: ``Do you support our country’s integration with
EU?`` were held tomorrow, how would you vote?
Sep 02.
68.0%
13.0%
10.0%
12.0%
Dec 03.
72.0%
8.0%
Sep 04.
70.6%
12.1%
Sep 05.
64.0%
Sep 06.
69.9%
Jun 07.
69.3%
I would vote in favor of it
12.0%
17.2%
16.0%
12.3%
15.4%
I would vote against it
17.8%
15.3%
I wouldn't vote
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What does EU mean to you personally?
Answered by: All respondents
54%
Road to a better future of young people
45%
More employment opportunities
Possibility to travel wherever I want
throughout Europe
44%
A way to improve situation and bring order
to our country
28%
20%
Risk to lose our own cultural identity
Guarantee for a long-lasting peace in
Europe
17%
Just a dream, utopia
15%
A way to protect the rights of the citizens
15%
Bulky bureacracy, waste of time and money
Means to improve general economic
situation in EU
12%
10%
Positive associations
Negative associations
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When thinking about yourself, you feel the most as:
Answered by: All respondents
Member of your people,
ethnic
community
17.9%
Member of your religious
community
4.5%
Citizen of Serbia
44.7%
Citizen of Europe
8.4%
Member of my people,
ethnic community
17.9%
Citizen of your place of
residence
22.8%
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Do you personally feel as a citizen of Europe?
Answered by: All respondents
Both yes and no
25.6%
Yes
42.1%
No
32.3%
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Readiness for changes
Answered by: All respondents
To what extent are you personally ready to do the following, in order to become a member of EU:
Attend additional schooling, prequalification or
advanced training
To have an unsatisfactory living standard for
some more time
48.0%
19.0%
44.0%
36.0%
To change previous habits
33.0%
29.0%
To change previous working habits (working
hours, holidays)
34.9%
24.5%
I am not ready
Neither ready nor unready
33.0%
20.0%
37.0%
40.0%
I am ready
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Fears related to EU expansion and membership
Answered by: All respondents
It will cost our country
too much
More problems for
local farmers
47
25
52
26
It will be the end of our
currency
35
Loss of influence of
small member countries
34
40
32
It will lead to lesser use
of our language
43
34
Loss of national identity
and culture
44
34
Loss of social benefits
38
32
It worries me (1+2)
It doesn't worry me (4+5)
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How informed are you about integration of our country with EU?
Answered by: All respondents
I am not informed
(1+2), 39%
I am informed
(4+5), 30%
I am neither
informed nor
uninformed, 32%
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How do you see the position of our country in the region in the light
of the process of European integrations?
Answered by: All respondents
Despite the difficulties,
our country still made
the biggest
advancement in the
process of European
integrations, 4%
Majority of the
countries in the region
are currently closer to
EU than our country,
55%
There are some
countries in the region
which are closer to EU,
but also the other
which advanced less
in the process of
European integrations,
41%
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Which of the following factors obstruct integration of our country
with EU the most?
Answered by: All respondents
Policy of constant conditioning and blackmailing
of EU towards our country
49.1%
Incompetence of local leadership
13.9%
Not fulfilling our international oblogations
Mentality of the people here and absence of
readiness for changes
Objective obstacles (voluminous reforms that
need to be conducted in all areas
20.1%
9.5%
7.4%
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Do you support cooperation with ICTY?
Answered by: All respondents
I don't support it
(3+4), 54.1%
I support it (1+2),
45.9%
I support it if EU integration
process will be discontinued in
opposite case
Answered by: Respondents who oppose cooperation with ICTY
26,6%
77%
I don’t support it, even if EU integration
process will be completely discontinued in
opposite case
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Is resolution of Kosovo status a prerequisite for integration with EU?
Answered by: All respondents
Kosovo issue and EU
integration are
separate processes
24%
EU conditions us to
give up Kosovo
45%
These two issues are
not officially
connected, but
Kosovo appears as a
prerequisite in
negotiations
31%
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If Europe recognized Kosovo unilaterally, what should be our
foreign politics?
Answered by: All respondents
Continue
diplomatic fight
for Kosovo
without
termination of
relations with
EU
71%
Terminate all
diplomatic and
economic
relations with
EU
29%
Answered by: испитаници који су за прекид односа са ЕУ
Develop independently,
Without anyone’s support , 41%
Rely on support of Russia, Belarus
and China, 59%
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Where is the status of Kosovo really decided?
Answered by: All respondents
EU
39
NATO
34
UN
27
G8
18
Contact group
8
Belgrade and Pristina
15
America
Russia
Elsewhere
10
1
12
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