Flash Eurobarometer 485: EU Citizenship and Democracy

The European Commission publishes a survey on a range of issues associated with EU citizenship and democracy, for which fieldwork was done in 27 EU Member States in February/March 2020. The survey explores Europeans’ familiarity with their status as EU citizens and their understanding of the rights conferred by EU citizenship; attitudes towards free movement in the EU and consular support while staying in a non-EU country; their knowledge and opinions on electoral rights; and their views on ways of increasing voter participation in European Parliament elections. A vast majority of Europeans (91%) are familiar with the term “citizen of the European Union”. 84% of respondents think that the free movement of EU citizens within the EU brings overall benefits to the economy of their country, which represents an increase by 13 percentage points since 2015.

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