eupinions: το 71% των Ευρωπαίων υποστηρίζει την καθιέρωση ενός καθολικού βασικού εισοδήματος
• In Crisis, Europeans Support Radical Positions
• Climate Change and Social Welfare issues most salient
Europe finds itself in an unprecedented crisis which is pushing many of its citizens into existential uncertainty. Our EU-wide poll, conducted in March 2020, as the corona virus was spreading across the continent, shows Europeans embracing some radical positions.
Remarkably, 71% of Europeans support the introduction of a universal basic income (UBI). Equally remarkably, but in another direction, 53% of young Europeans place more confidence in authoritarian states than democracies when it comes to addressing the climate crisis. Our questions were formulated before the virus struck, but it would be interesting to explore whether a similar sentiment is found around states’ ability to combat pandemics.
The questions in this survey were designed by the research team of Europe’s Stories, a research project of the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, in consultation with the experts of the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s eupinions survey. The poll was then conducted between March 5th and March 25th 2020 as part of the quarterly eupinions wave, using their usual methodology. More than 12,000 respondents between the ages of 16 and 69 were surveyed in all 27 EU member states and the United Kingdom, which very recently became an ex-member state. For short, we call them ‘Europeans’, although we are well aware that our results do not include all European countries. To say ‘EU citizens’ would no longer be accurate, since the UK has left the EU. We broke the data down into three age cohorts, ‘young’ (aged 16-29), ‘middle’ (30-49) and (as seen by our young researchers) ‘old’ (50-69). The full questionnaire used in the survey can be found found here.
The eupinions Great Expectations survey, authored by Catherine de Vries and Isabell Hoffmann in November 2019, found that Europeans think climate change, jobs and social security should be among the EU’s top priorities for the future. We wanted to explore in more depth what kind of policies Europeans wish for in these areas. How do European citizens, especially the young, perceive their future? What do they want done? Who do they want to do it?
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