Eurobarometer poll: 61% of Bulgarians believe country has benefited from EU membership
Sixty-one per cent of Bulgarians believe the country has benefited from its membership of the European Union, according to the findings of a Eurobarometer poll, the results of which were released on March 25.
This is in contrast to an EU average of 74 per cent.
Of those polled, 29 per cent said that Bulgaria had not benefited from being an EU member, compared with an EU average of 22 per cent.
Sixty-five per cent of Bulgarians said that they felt that the EU had an impact on their daily lives, while 32 per cent said that it did not.
Given a range of options of what they saw as the benefits of the EU membership of Bulgaria – it joined the bloc at the beginning of 2007 – the top three were that it provides new work opportunities (54 per cent) and, tying at 29 per cent, that it contributes to protecting peace and strengthening security, and that improves cooperation with other EU countries.
Asked what they believed would happen to their standard of living over the next five years, 20 per cent of the Bulgarians polled said that it would improve, 46 per cent said that it would not change, 25 per cent said that it would decrease and nine per cent said “don’t know”.
Across the EU, the average was 14 per cent believing that their standard of living would improve, 51 per cent that it would not change, 33 per cent that it would decrease and two per cent said “don’t know”.
The poll was done through face-to-face interviews with 1044 respondents, from January 10 to 29 2025.
(Photo: Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry)
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