The poll is conducted twice a year. The latest, 63rd poll, was conducted in all 25 European Union member countries, two accession countries -- Bulgaria and Romania, two candidates -- Croatia and Turkey, and the Turkish-administered northern part of Cyprus. This was the second poll to cover Croatia and was conducted among 1,000 people between May 10 to June 6.
According to the national report for Croatia, Croatian citizens' confidence in the EU has dropped from 42 per cent in the previous poll to 28 per cent.
The poll focuses on how citizens see EU membership, their perception of the Union, and support to the European Constitution and further EU enlargement. Citizens are also polled about how satisfied they currently are, their expectations and preoccupations, and their evaluation of European and national democracy.
Forty (40) per cent of those polled believe EU membership would be neither good nor bad, 29 per cent have a negative and 27 per cent a positive view of it. Croats advocate a stronger unification of Europe and expectations of living standards improving with membership rise with the level of education of those polled.
Forty-seven (47) per cent would feel safer if Croatia was in the EU, while 49 per cent think Croatia would be economically and 50 per cent politically more stable.
Croatia's admission to the EU is supported by 48 per cent of those polled in old EU members and by 72 per cent in new members, or by an average 52 per cent in the 25-member Union.
Interestingly, 95 per cent of viewers of a Slovene commercial TV station who took part in a vote after watching a show on Croatian-Slovene relations on Thursday were against Croatia's admission to the EU, while only five per cent were in favour.
Eighty-four (84) per cent of Croats support the further enlargement of the Union, while 50 per cent think every country wishing to join the Union should do so.
Fifty-seven (57) per cent of Croats are in favour of Turkey's accession, while support for Turkey in the EU is only 35 per cent.
Support for the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina is 68 per cent in Croatia and 42 per cent in the EU, for Macedonia it is 65 per cent in Croatia and 43 per cent in the EU, for Albania 59 per cent in Croatia and 36 per cent in the EU, while support for the accession of Serbia and Montenegro is 48 per cent in Croatia and 40 per cent in the EU. Thirty-three per cent of Croats and 44 per cent of Europeans are against Serbia and Montenegro's admission.
Eighty (80) per cent of Croats obtain their information about the EU from television, 44 per cent from dailies, 31 per cent from radio, 30 per cent in conversation with family, friends and colleagues, and 12 per cent from the Internet. Only seven per cent said they never looked for any information or were not interested in the EU.
The poll indicates that Croats' attitudes toward the EU remain inconstant and influenced by daily politics, according to the EC Delegation. However, despite a higher Euro-scepticism, the Croats showed in answers to concrete questions that they are in favour of a more firmly integrated Europe.
According to the poll, although two-thirds of Croats are satisfied with their lives, they are still less satisfied than citizens in the EU, where as many as four-fifths are satisfied with their lives.
Ninety-five (95) per cent of Croats and 62 per cent of EU citizens consider their national economies bad. Fifty-seven (57) per cent of Croats think their economy will improve in the next five years as against 50 per cent of Europeans.
More than three-fourths of Croats are dissatisfied with the democracy in Croatia, while 95 per cent consider themselves either national, local or regional patriots.