The support for Slovakia's accession
to the EU and the NATO has increased
BRATISLAVA: The support for Slovakia's
accession to the European Union and the NATO has increased
over the recent month. Currently, as much as 77% of
our citizens support our accession to that formation
- with 40,7% of the respondents definitely taking part
in the referendum and 28,4% rather taking part in it.
Since March, there increased also the number of citizens
supporting Slovakia's integration to the EU, by more
than 6% and (on the other hand), the number of those
rather supporting than not supporting our EU accession
dropped by 4%. The number of those rather not supporting
than supporting our integration - has dropped by 0,5%.
Definitely and unambiguously against Slovakia's EU accession
are 6,3% of the respondents - meaning a drop by 2,5%
since March. This follows from the public-opinion research
that has been conducted on a sample of 1 137 respondents
on April 25-29, 2003 by the Institute for Cultural and
Public Opinion Research of the National Culture Centre
(NOC)
Do you support Slovakia's
accession to the EU, or not?
2003
April
2003
March
„I definitely support it“
46.7
40.2
„I rather support it“
30.5
34.3
„I rather don't support it"
13.7
14.2
„I definitely don´t support
it“
6.3
8.8
„I don't know“
2.8
2.5
In the May-referendum on Slovakia's
accession to the EU – the respondent will:
definitely participate: 40.7%
rather participate: 28.4%
rather not participate: 12.5%
definitely not participate: 15.1%
does not know: 3.3%
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