Almost 60 percent of Ukrainian citizens are ready at a referendum to vote for Ukraine’s accession to the EU and a little over 45 percent support the country’s accession to NATO.
According to a poll conducted by the Socis center on Dec. 8-18, if a referendum on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union is held in the near future, 58.3 percent of citizens would vote for EU membership, 21.6 percent of respondents would not support such entry, 8.1 percent would not take part in the referendum, and 12 percent of those polled could not answer the question.
At the same time, 45.5 percent of respondents are ready to support Ukraine’s accession to NATO, 29.4 percent are against, 8.5 percent of respondents will not come to the referendum, and 16.6 percent were undecided.
The survey was conducted among the adult population of Ukraine according to the following criteria: gender, age (from 18 years old), division into regions and the type of settlement (city/village). A total of 2,000 respondents were interviewed. The method of collecting primary sociological information is a standardized face-to-face interview at the place of residence of the respondents.
