Latest Results (Spring 2025)
In general, does the European Union conjure up positive, neutral or negative feelings? (Spring 2025)
Do you tend to trust the European Commission? (Spring 2025)
Are you for or against the Euro? (Spring 2025)
| Eurobarometer | |
|---|---|
| Public opinion survey | |
| Project type | Public opinion survey |
| Funding agency | European Commission |
| Objective | To measure public opinion across EU member states |
| Participants | Europeans |
| Duration | 1973 – Ongoing |
| Website | europa |
Eurobarometer is a series of public opinion surveys conducted regularly on behalf of the European Commission and other EU institutions since 1974. These surveys address a wide variety of topical issues relating to the European Union throughout its member states.
The Eurobarometer results are published by the European Commission's Directorate-General Communication. Its database since 1974 is one of the largest in the world. [1]
In 1970 and 1971, the European Commission conducted surveys in the six member countries (at that time) of the European Community—Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. These surveys assessed public opinion on individual national priorities as well as integrated European functions and organisations, including the Common Market. [2]
Regular semi-annual polls of member nations – now also including Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom – began in September 1973, with the survey series first being given the name Eurobarometer in 1974. The fieldwork for Euro-Barometer 1 was conducted in April–May of that year, with results published in July. [3]
A first international survey on attitudes towards European unification was carried out in 1962 at the request of the Press and Information Service of the European Communities in Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. [4]
