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Survey: Romanians most convinced EU citizens that community funds must observe rule of law
Less than 82% of Romanians agree to the conditioning by EU of allocation of community funds to apply principles of the rule of law by national governments, a proportion which ranks Romania 4th in EU from this point of view, according to a new survey ordered by the European Parliament whose results were published on Tuesday.
According to the survey made at the beginning of October 2020, aboutn 8n out of 10 participants (77%) in EU support this concept. In Romania, 41% of people said they totally agreed with this conditioning and 41% said they tended to agree. Romania is surpassed by this concept only by Cyprus (89%, Luxembourg (86%) and Austria (83%), sharing 4th position with Greece (82%).
In Hungary and Poland, states that strongly oppose this conditioning of fund allocation, only 72% of people support this conditioning, one of the lowest support degrees in EU.
54% of Europeans consider that EU should have more important financial means to exceed consequences of coronavirus pandemic. In 20 EU member states, most participants agree to this statement, while in 14 EU member states, most participants support a higher EU budget.
62% of Romanians believe that EU should have more substantial financial means to surpass pandemic consequences, a criterion for which we rank 8th in EU.
Asked about fields in which this extended EU budget should be spent, more than half of participants (54%) say public health should be a priority, followed by economic recovery and new opportunities for enterprises (42%), climate changes and environment protection (37%) , labor force occupation and social affairs (35%).
At EU level, climate changes and the environment replaced labor force occupation in the top of the first three priorities for expenses, compare to the latest survey made in June 2020.
Public health is the main priority of respondents from 18 countries. In Romania, 65% of respondents said health should be the main priority (5th in EU, the same as Ireland).
In no less than 20 countries, most participants say the present crisis already had impact on their personal income. 55% of respondents in Romania (2nd in EU next to Greece and Spain and after Cyprus) say the crisis has already had impact on their incomes, 28% say they haven't had any impact yet, but they anticipate one, while 11% say the crisis will have no impact.
Two thirds of participants in the survey, 66%, say they agree that EU should have more competences to cope with crises such as the coronavirus pandemic. Only a quarter (25%) agree with this affirmation. These statements are according to results of previous surveys made by the European Parliament in April and in June 2020, and EP press release says.
In Romania, 74% of respondents think EU should have more competences to face such a crisis.
The survey was made online by Kantar, between September 25 and October 7, 2020, among 24,812 participants from all 27 EU member states and was limited to participants aged between 16 and 64 (16-54 in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia).