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Non-partisan information on UK attitudes to the EU before and since the EU Referendum

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Topic: Attitudes towards topical events

Opinions about recent events from across Europe that might affect attitudes to the EU

Do you think Britain and other member states should decide their own policies for solving the refugee crisis, or should the EU make a collective decision?

27 November 2015 Question Attitudes towards topical events What should the EU do?


Do you think Britain and other member states should decide their own policies for military intervention to fight ISIS in Syria and Iraq, or should the EU make a collective decision?

27 November 2015 Question Attitudes towards topical events What should the EU do?


Do you think that Britain can better defend itself against terrorism as part of the EU, or if it was not in the EU?

20 November 2015 Question Attitudes towards topical events EU membership: good or bad deal?


In response to the recent events in Paris, do you support or oppose closing borders between all European countries so that people cannot travel across Europe without passing through border controls?

20 November 2015 Question Attitudes towards topical events Migration and freedom of movement


In response to the recent events in Paris, do you support or oppose closing Britain’s borders with the EU so no-one from Europe can come into Britain permanently?

20 November 2015 Question Attitudes towards topical events Migration and freedom of movement


How would you rate the way the European Union has been handling the success of Islamic State?

8 October 2015 Question Attitudes towards topical events Does the EU work?


How would you rate the way the European Union has been handling the Greek debt crisis?

8 October 2015 Question Attitudes towards topical events Does the EU work?


Do you think Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has done a good or a bad job so far?

6 October 2015 Question Attitudes towards topical events Sources of persuasion


Do you think Herman Van Rompuy, the President of the European Council, has done a good or a bad job so far?

6 October 2015 Question Attitudes towards topical events Sources of persuasion


Regarding the crisis in Cyprus, would you support a plan to tax 6.75% on savings between 20,000 and 100,000 euros and tax 9.9% on savings over 100,000 euros?

6 October 2015 Question Attitudes towards topical events Currency and business regulation


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