Special Eurobarometer 146: Europe of Defence

For this study of Europeans' perceptions concerning European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP), eight closed multi-items questions were inserted in wave 54.1 of the Eurobarometer, which was conducted between 14 November and 19 December 2000 by the European Opinion Research Group, a consortium of marketing and public opinion study agencies composed of INRA (Europe) and GfK Worldwide.
The three things Europeans fear most are non-military risks, that is to say organised crime (77 %), an accident in a nuclear power plant (75 %) and terrorism (74 %). On the other hand, the three risks less often mentioned (but onetheless mentioned by more than four respondents out of ten) are a nuclear conflict in Europe (44 %), a conventional war in Europe (45 %) and a world war (45 %).
This public opinion survey, managed and organised by the European Commission's Education and Culture Directorate-General, "Centre for the citizen -- Analysis of public opinion" Unit, was conducted on behalf of the Education and Culture DG's "Language policy" Unit. The survey was conducted in all the Member at States of the European Union between 6 and 23 December 2000, under the general coordination of INRA (EUROPE) - European Coordination Office in Brussels.

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

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