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The aim of this paper is to report attitudes toward enlargement in the 15 member states of the European Union, seven candidate countries for enlargement, and five other post-Communist states not currently negotiating EU membership. The paper finds more than one-fifth of all citizens in the accession countries regard themselves as Europeans. These post-Communist Europeans tend to be young, well-educated and city dwellers. In the candidate states, an absolute majority of post-Communist citizens regards the activities of the EU as positive and more than 90 per cent favour the integration of their own country into the European Union. The core groups for joining are again the young, better off, highly educated and urban residents of candidate countries. Among the EU-member states attitudes follow geographical clusters: the driving forces of opinion are the Scandinavian EU-countries and Mediterranean countries, Greece, Spain and Italy. The strongest opposition to enlargement is found among citizens of Austria, Germany, Belgium and France. The favourite countries of EU citizens for enlargement are Malta, Cyprus and Hungary; the least popular candidate countries are Romania, Slovenia and Bulgaria.
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