The latest report shows that a relative majority, or 45 percent of EU citizens, support enlargement in principle.
At least half the population in all the 10 new EU member-countries support the continuation of the enlargement process, with Poland and Slovenia having the highest support ratios, 72 and 73 percent respectively.
Strong support was reported also in the two acceding countries Bulgaria (62%) and Romania (69%), as well as in Croatia (64%). Only a relative majority of Turks (45%) support the continuation of enlargement, 29 percent oppose the process, and as much as 25 percent have no opinion on the matter.
Of the EU15 the majority of Greek (56%), Spanish (55%) and Danish (51%) respondents claimed to be in favour of enlargement.
In Sweden (49%), Italy (48%), Portugal (47%), Ireland (45%) and Great Britain (44%) a relative majority of citizens supports enlargement.
German (66%), Luxembourgish (65%), French (62%), Austrian (61%) and Finnish (60%) interviewees disapprove of EU enlargement in particular.
As for enlargement once a candidate country has met all membership criteria, most EU citizens support Croatia's admission, the ratio being 56% in all the 25 member-countries and 53% in the 15 old member-states. Thirty percent of citizens in the EU25 oppose Croatia's admission and 34% in the 15 old member-countries oppose it.
A relative majority of EU citizens supports the admission of other Western Balkan countries as well, the exception being Albania. Turkey received the least support for admission.
The report also reveals a low level of general knowledge of EU enlargement, in particular of the benefits of the process for the EU. More than two-thirds of EU citizens (68%) feel they are not well informed about the enlargement process and they expect national governments and the media to inform them about it.