The Views of Europeans on the European Union’s Priorities

Download or read book The Views of Europeans on the European Union’s Priorities written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Standard Eurobarometer 89 survey was conducted between 13 and 28 March 2018 in 34 countries or territories: the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU), five candidate countries (the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Montenegro, Serbia and Albania), and the Turkish Cypriot Community in the part of the country not controlled by the government of the Republic of Cyprus. This edition of the Standard Eurobarometer report of spring 2018 (EB89) analyses European citizens’ opinions of the European Union’s policies, in particular the priorities set by the European Commission, a subject that was approached through the following questions: Support for European policies: are Europeans in favour of developing common EU policies, principally concerning economic and monetary matters, but also with regard to foreign policies, defence and security? Support for industry: is the objective of bringing industry's contribution to the economy to 20% of GDP by 2020, targeted since 2010 by the European Commission, too ambitious, ambitious enough or not ambitious enough? The priorities for a European energy union: what main objectives would Europeans like to see assigned to a common energy policy of the EU Member States? Migration and freedom of movement within the EU: how do Europeans feel about immigration from other EU Member States? Or from countries outside the EU? Lastly, do they support the free movement of citizens throughout the EU? The full Standard Eurobarometer 89 survey report consists of several volumes. The first volume presents the state of general opinion in the European Union (EU), as well opinion on economic matters in the EU. Four other volumes present the views of Europeans on the following subjects: the priorities of the European Union, European citizenship, the future of the European Union, the European Union budget and Europeans and the future of Europe. This volume is devoted to the priorities of the European Union. The methodology used is that of the Standard Eurobarometer surveys of the Directorate-General for Communication (“Media monitoring, media analysis and Eurobarometer” Unit). The same methodology was used in all countries and territories covered by the survey. A technical note describing how the institutes within the TNS opinion and social network conduct interviews is included in the report annexes. This note also specifies the confidence intervals, which enable us to assess the accuracy of a survey’s results according to the size of the sample polled in relation to the total size of the population studied.