Special Eurobarometer 371: Internal security

This Eurobarometer gives a picture of public perceptions of the challenges to peace and security in the European Union. The Eurobarometer accompanies the first annual report on the implementation of the Internal Security Strategy and sets up the baseline for future re-evaluation. Economic crisis, terrorism and poverty are amongst the most mentioned challenges with substantial differences among Member States. However it is cybercrime that in the view of citizens is most likely to increase. This survey covers • Europeans’ perceptions of the main challenges to national and EU security • Europeans’ views of the five challenges set out in the Internal Security Strategy in Action • Europeans' views on the evolution of the five challenges in the next three years • Europeans' views on their country's and the EU's actions to address the five challenges • Europeans’ views on the link between internal security of the EU and external events or developments that take place outside the EU • Europeans' views on the EU's main security partners #####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)