Special Eurobarometer 255: Attitudes towards EU enlargement

The Directorate-General Enlargement wished to commission a poll on EU citizens’ perceptions of their knowledge about enlargement and their perception of the advantages and disadvantages of the enlargement of the European Union. Interviews were conducted face-to-face in people’s homes, in their national language, between March 27 and May 01, 2006. The underlying objective of this analysis is to assess citizens’ level and type of information, as well as their attitude towards the principal objectives, and their perception of the advantages and disadvantages of EU enlargement. Finally, we will explore the citizens’ view of possible future EU enlargement to the Western Balkan countries and Turkey. For each theme addressed, our analysis looks at the: • European Union as a whole; • Individual countries; • Socio-demographic variables; Other variables which we systematically cross-tabulated with the results for each question include: being for or against enlargement (results for QA30.42) and selfperceived knowledge of enlargement (results for QD1). #####The results by volumes are distributed as follows: * Volume A: Countries * Volume AA: Groups of countries * Volume A' (AP): Trends * Volume AA' (AAP): Trends of groups of countries * Volume B: EU/socio-demographics * Volume B' (BP) : Trends of EU/ socio-demographics * Volume C: Country/socio-demographics ---- Researchers may also contact GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences: [https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer](https://www.gesis.org/eurobarometer)