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Latvians' support for membership in EU down to 45 percent: poll

Xinhua, April 28, 2017 Adjust font size:

Latvians' support for their country's membership in the European Union (EU) has declined by 3 percentage points over the past year to 45 percent, a new Eurobarometer poll has revealed.

Meanwhile, 10 percent of the surveyed people in Latvia were against their country's membership in the EU. Their percentage has remained unchanged since 2016. Across the EU, 14 percent of respondents said they disapproved of their respective country's membership in the bloc.

According to the survey, which was conducted in March of this year, 57 percent of respondents in the bloc voiced positive attitudes to membership in the EU. Support for EU membership in Latvia's neighbor countries Lithuania and Estonia was also higher than in Latvia, with 65 percent of the surveyed Lithuanians and 67 percent of Estonians regarding membership in the bloc as something good.

In Latvia, 44 percent of respondents feel that membership in the EU is neither good nor bad. The ratio of such respondents has grown by 3 percentage points from last year. Across the EU this opinion was voiced by every fourth respondent. Endit