The poll also showed that 60 percent of Czechs trust the European Union and 30 percent do not trust it. According to Eurobarometer, the government is trusted mainly by young people, but no more than by one third of them.
Trust grows with education, but the government enjoys trust of only 26 percent of Czech university graduates. The poll points to a clear connection between trust in EU Parliament Raises Bar for Extremist Parties ...
Half of Czechs expect life to be better in their homeland - poll ...
Czech ODS prefers lower social insurance payments, to keep taxes ... the government and political orientation of the respondents. On the left, a mere 7 percent trust the government while on the right the trust is 35 percent. Young, educated and right-minded people also trust the European Union more. According to the Eurobarometer poll authors, the low trust in the government and parliament in the Czech Republic may be due to people's disenchantment with the level of political culture and unsolved political and corruption scandals. According to a June poll by the Czech STEM agency, citizens evaluated best the performance of President Vaclav Klaus who enjoyed almost two third-trust. The government's performance was then trusted by 32 percent of the polled and parliament by 31 percent. This was the eighth poll in the Czech Republic by Eurobarometer that maps citizens' moods in all EU member countries. It was conducted on 1014 respondents on April 2-17.
(Ceske Noviny)
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