Eurobarometer 86.3: Humanitarian Aid, Civil Protection, EU Citizens’ views on development, cooperation and aid and Chemical safety (2016)

The Eurobarometer survey is designed to provide regular monitoring of public social and political attitudes in the EU through specific trend questions. Therefore, the general aim of EB is to know the attitudes and evaluations of European citizens about large general themes. The questions concern to the European integration issues, but sometimes they regard also specific problem about single country or common problems of economic, political or social nature.

The arguments of Eurobarometer 86.3 are as follows:

• Humanitarian aid: awareness and importance of the EU funding humanitarian aid activities; importance of EU humanitarian aid to fund education for children in crises; approval of the EU initiative to sending volunteers to carry out humanitarian aid actions all over the world; humanitarian aid provided by each member state separately is more efficient than provided by the EU as a whole; image of the EU.
• Civil protection: awareness and importance of the EU helping to coordinate disaster response within the EU; approval of the following statements: coordinated EU action in dealing with disasters is more effective than actions by individual countries, own country has sufficient means to deal with major disasters on its own, EU needs civil protection policy as major disasters may have cross-border effects, EU should help countries worldwide in case of disasters; preferred information sources on EU civil protection policy; sufficiency of measures to prevent or prepare for disasters in: own region, own country, EU.
• EU Citizens’ views on development, cooperation and aid: importance to help people in developing countries; most important challenges in development countries; attitude towards increasing development aid; attitude towards statements regarding tackling poverty in development countries; personal engagement in helping developing countries; assessment of the efficacy of the following actions with regard to reducing poverty in developing countries: individual actions, EU and member states actions; awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals agreed by the international community; main obstacles in preventing successful development in developing countries.
• Chemical safety: concern about exposure to hazardous chemicals in daily life; self-rated knowledge about potential dangers of chemicals in products of daily life; assessment of products containing chemicals in the own country with regard to health and environmental safety; sufficient regulation of hazardous chemicals within the EU; preferred sources of information on potential dangers of chemicals in everyday products; obligation of sellers in the own country to provide information on hazardous chemicals in products.

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Keywords: poverty, environment, voluntary work