While the number of people willing to accept refugees rose between May to October, willingness to send military aid to Ukraine has slightly decreased, an opinion poll by Kantar CZ agency for Czech Television showed.
The willingness to accept Ukrainian refugees rose over the last five months, while some 45% disagreed with helping those fleeing the war by offering them local assistance.
A greater number of people are also not worried about their jobs due to the migrant influx.
However, support for sending military aid to Ukraine has also dropped slightly, from 61% in the spring to the current 53%.
“It is still the case that men, people with higher education and by far the largest number of voters of government parties are friendlier towards Ukraine and refugees. At the other end of the opinion, spectrum are Freedom and Direct Democracy (ID affiliated) and Communist party (GUE-NGL affiliated) voters,” survey co-author Nikola Kopáčová told Czech Television.
There is also a growing thought trend that the country should break away from Russian energy supplies, with society currently split in half on the issue.
While 48% of Czechs want to stop energy supplies from Russia, 47% are against it, and the rest do not know. “The share of those who agree with cutting off energy supplies from Russia has increased by five percentage points since August,” Kopáčová said.
(Aneta Zachová | EURACTIV.cz)
Source: euractiv.com
