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Date of release: June 4
Released in: EKONOM, Issue 22.
Source: http://ekonom.ihned.cz/index.php?p=400000_detail&article[id]=12856920
Analysis
Public opinion: Still lack of information
Eight from ten Czech citizens
perform now the interest in the European goings-on.
However, one half of them is still missing - according
to their own words - arguments, why should they say
"yes". The latest estimates - despite that
- are a good reason for optimism. Seventy percent of
Czech citizens will probably participate in referendum
and nearly eighty perent of them will vote for accession
of the Czechia to EU. "We must be very careful
in our estimates. This is the first referendum in the
Czech history, therefore we don't know, how much is
possible to use regular election criteria for the estimates,"
said at the press conference the director of TNS-Factum,
Jan Herzmann, about the results of survey.
The concern about what a Czech
membership will bring on to the country is increasing
before the Czech "D" day. 27 percent of respondents
are afraid of higher prices. Thirteen percent is fear
of the Czech agriculture destiny. "It has a symbolic
value for people. The impacts will affect not only farmers
but also prices of food. Therefore is necessary to be
more focused both on farmers and price of food,"
hinted Jan Hartl, the director of STEM. The farmers
always claim they still don't know why to support the
accession.
The key group are young people
between 18 and 29 years old; though are for membership
but they are not very interested in voting. "We
prepared together with Internet servers like Atlas,
Seznam and Centrum an action: on special banners the
links to www.Euroskop.cz will appear, where young people
can find information on voting process, even on how
to vote away from place of residence," the director
of Communication strategy department of the Ministry
for Forreign Affairs Jana Adamcová explains.
She is responsible for pre-referendum campaign.
It is necessary to convince the pensioners about the
advantage of accession within social sphere. More than
one half of inhabitants think that living standard will
decrease, because social security in EU member states
is on the higher level than in the Czech Republic. They
say lack of information is to blame for that.
What will be the most importante
change that our membership in EU bring on?
free movement of people: 29%
integration in developed Europe: 14%
aggravation of social situation: 14%
implementation of EUR: 6%
improvement of legal system: 6%
loss of sovereignty: 5%
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