About 50 per cent of Romanian citizens believe that the country’s membership to the European Union has brought more advantages to Romania.
Such conclusions have been reached in the recent poll carried out by INSCOP, SchengenVisaInfo reports.
However, many Romanians see themselves as not enjoying the same rights as other Europeans.
Based on this poll, the number of Romanians thinking that joining the EU brought more advantages for this Balkan country surged from 35.2 per cent in 2014 to 47.6 per cent in 2024.
47.6 per cent of Romanians believe that Romania’s accession to the European Union brought advantages (compared to 35.2 per cent in 2014), 21.9 per cent believe that it brought neither advantages or disadvantages (compared to 41.5 per cent in 2014), and 27.7 per cent opt rather for disadvantages (compared to 19.9 per cent in 2014).
A total of 42.3 per cent of Romanians believe that the priority of the MEPs representing Bucharest after the June 9 elections should be to fight for Romanians to have the same rights as the rest of the European citizens, with full European Union integration second on the list of priorities Schengen, taking also into account land borders.
The number of those who consider themselves more informed about the European institutions’ activity is only about 25 per cent, both regarding the European Parliament, as well as the European Commission and the European Council, the rest considering they are uninformed regarding the issue.
Information Regarding European Institutions & Romanian MEPs
About three-quarters of Romanians consider themselves rather not informed regarding the activity of the European Institution.
26.8 per cent of Romanians consider that they are rather informed about the activity of the European Parliament (compared to 26 per cent in 2014), while 72.3 per cent consider that they are rather uninformed about the activity of this European institution (compared to 69 per cent in 2014) 0.9 per cent is the share of non-responses.
Regarding the activity of MEPs of Romania, 26.1 per cent consider themselves rather informed, compared to 26.9 per cent in 2014 and 73 per cent rather uninformed in comparison to 68.4 per cent in 2014. At the same time 0.9 per cent do not answer or do not know this question.
At the same time, 24.9 per cent of the respondents said that they are informed about the activity of the European Council while 73.9 per cent said that they are not informed about this European Institution activity.
