Austrians against further EU enlargement

After the entrance of Croatia in mid-2012, the Austrians do not want additional accession of new countries to the European Union, according to the public opinion survey which was carried out on Monday.

Austrians oppose most on the entrance of Albania, 68% of them are against, and only 15 percent agreed while the rest did not give an opinion, on Kosovo 66 percent against and 16 percent agree, Turkey 65 percent against and 17 percent agree, Serbia 61 percent against and 19 percent agree. These are the results of a survey conducted by the Society for social Research, Austrian Society for European Policy.

Almost uniformly negative attitude have towards BIH's entry into the EU, or 58 percent against and 22 percent agree, 55 percent against and 20 percent agree for Macedonia, for Montenegro 55 percent against and 21 percent agree.

The interviewees are most prone to the entry of Iceland, i.e. 33 percent agree, and 37 percent against.
The survey was conducted by telephone and included 500 Austrians.

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