Poll: 49 percent of Serbians support EU accession

Source: Beta

BELGRADE -- Serbia’s EU accession is supported by 49 percent of citizens while 25 percent are against it, shows a poll conducted by the government’s EU Integration Office.

According to the poll, if a referendum was held, 49 percent of Serbians would vote in favor of the country’s EU accession, 25 would vote against it, while eight percent of the people do not know what their answer would be.
The poll shows that the citizens’ support to the EU is two percent lower than in the last survey. There is also three percent less of those are against the EU accession.

41 percent of the citizens believe that the EU membership is a good thing, 28 that it is bad for Serbia while 31 percent believe that it is neither good nor bad.

Of those who would vote against the EU accession, 19 percent would do so because they believe that the membership would not bring anything good to Serbia, 14 percent is against the EU accession due to conditions, blackmails and pressures while 15 percent could not say why they would vote against it.

68 percent of the citizens believe that the reforms should be carried out even if they were not a condition for the EU accession.

According to the poll, 41 percent of the citizens say that combat against corruption is one of the most important things since it directly affects their lives.

The largest number of citizens sees the Kosovo issue as the main obstacle to Serbia’s EU pathway, the poll shows.

62 percent of Serbian citizens believe that problems between Belgrade and Priština should be solved regardless of whether it is requested by the EU.