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Survey: About 60% of Czechs see the Green Deal as a threat, 27% as an opportunity

by AI | 05.Mar 2025 | Europe in brief AI

The survey also focused on the attitude of Czechs towards climate change issues and Europe and the European Union itself.

Nature, weather, ecology - illustrative image. Photo: ČTK Connect/Olga Patáková

Prague – The European Green Deal is perceived by almost 60 percent of Czechs as a threat, while 27 percent consider it an opportunity. This is according to a survey by the STEM agency and the Institute for European Policy Europeum, which was presented to journalists by representatives of the institute. According to Europeum researcher Rebeka Hengalová, the Green Deal has become a label for all climate policy, to which it is relatively easy to attach a number of different negative aspects.

Over 1,000 respondents participated in the survey last November; in addition to attitudes towards the Green Deal, it also focused on Czechs’ attitudes towards climate change issues and Europe and the European Union themselves. A total of 60 percent of respondents said they know what the Green Deal is about, but Hengalová noted that there was no room in the questionnaire to verify whether people really understand it. According to the data, 13 percent of respondents had not heard of the Green Deal, and another 27 percent had heard of it but did not know what it was about.

The survey also focused on the Czech population’s views on climate change. The data shows that 56 percent of respondents are interested in climate change issues, 67 percent consider climate change a serious problem, and more than two-thirds believe that human activity must change to find a solution. Just under 30 percent of respondents think nature will take care of itself. “The strongest factor for expressing that the Green Deal is a threat is the perception of climate change as not being a problem,” said Hengalová. “What is important for us is that 62 percent of the population has not yet experienced the impact of climate change in their personal lives,” she also noted. According to the survey, 29 percent of respondents have “experienced” climate change.

The survey also focused on Czechs’ opinions on the European Union. More than three-quarters of Czechs, according to Europeum Deputy Director Viktor Daněk, feel European, but this does not necessarily mean, according to him, that they feel the same belonging to the European Union itself or its institutions. Researchers also asked how the Czech public would now vote in a hypothetical referendum on EU membership. “We found that a fairly encouraging majority, 62 percent of Czechs, would vote for the Czech Republic to remain in the EU,” said Daněk. (March 4th)