Public opinion and EU policies: Exploring the expectations gap
The Eurobarometer survey of the European Parliament 'Europeans in 2016: Perceptions and expectations, fight against terrorism and radicalisation' aimed to identify, across a range of different policy fields, the level of awareness of citizens of EU action in that field, and to assess how content they were with EU involvement in each field. This compendium brings together a set of short briefings by the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) following up the survey. Taking each of those policy fields in turn, they look at what the Union is already doing, identify gaps between citizens’ expectations and current EU activity, and possible areas for additional EU action. The full survey can be accessed on the European Parliament website, including a series of infographics presenting the differences in public opinion by policy area in each Member State.
Briefing
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EPRS, DG
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Policy area
- Agriculture and Rural Development
- Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
- Democracy
- Economics and Monetary Issues
- Employment
- Energy
- Environment
- EU Democracy, Institutional and Parliamentary Law
- Gender Issues, Equality and Diversity
- Global Governance
- Industry
- Public Health
- Security and Defence
- Social Policy
Keyword
- agricultural policy
- AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY AND FISHERIES
- common agricultural policy
- common foreign and security policy
- coordination of EMU policies
- employment
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- ENERGY
- energy policy
- energy policy
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental policy
- EU employment policy
- EU environmental policy
- EU industrial policy
- EU situation
- European construction
- European social policy
- European tax cooperation
- EUROPEAN UNION
- external border of the EU
- FINANCE
- gender equality
- industrial structures and policy
- INDUSTRY
- international law
- LAW
- monetary economics
- opinion poll
- POLITICS
- politics and public safety
- rights and freedoms
- social affairs
- social framework
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- taxation
- terrorism
- the EU's international role