Major Symbial survey on Europe
Symbial is a survey institute founded in 1991.
We have just conducted a major survey of the French.
This is a survey we conducted on our own behalf, based on an Opinéa panel of 1007 online respondents, representative of the population in our territory.
Through 9 barometric questions we reconstruct the state of French opinion on the European Union.
This wave was conducted in early March 2020.
Survey carried out by sampling (notably with the implementation of the quota method in order to guarantee the representativeness of the sample in relation to the reference population).
Opinea’s Access Panel Online is exclusively dedicated to research. Recruited according to the rules of the art of access panels, it allows the constitution of representative samples of the national population but also of specific targets, thus being able to correspond to the particularity of all the needs.
The confidence interval depends on the number of respondents for each question:
number: trust interval = +or-
| 30 : 17.89% | 90 : 10.33% | 100 : 9.80% | 200 : 6.93% | 300 : 5.66% | 400 : 4.90% | 600 : 4.00% | 800 : 3.46% | 1000 : 3.10% | 1500 : 2.53% | 2000 : 2.19% |
%
Bring back the French franc
| Male | 36% |
| Female | 40% |
| 16 et 24 ans | 26% |
| 25 and 34 years | 50% |
| 35 and 44 years | 40% |
| 45 and 54 years | 41% |
| 55 and 64 years | 35% |
| 65 and 74 years | 23% |
%
The European Union responds to concerns in the economic and social field
| Male | 44% |
| Female | 44% |
| 16 and 24 years | 47% |
| 25 and 34 years | 53% |
| 35 and 44 years | 48% |
| 45 and 54 years | 39% |
| 55 and 64 years | 42% |
| 65 and 74 years | 32% |
%
For a Europe of Nations instead of the European Union
| Male | 63% |
| Female | 59% |
| 16 and 24 years | 50% |
| 25 and 34 years | 69% |
| 35 and 44 years | 61% |
| 45 and 54 years | 60% |
| 55 and 64 years | 64% |
| 65 and 74 years | 57% |
%
EU effective on legal and illegal immigration
| Male | 40% |
| Female | 43% |
| 16 and 24 years | 51% |
| 25 and 34 years | 56% |
| 35 and 44 years | 42% |
| 45 and 54 years | 37% |
| 55 and 64 years | 35% |
| 65 and 74 years | 25% |
%
Which of these countries (currently under negotiation) should be allowed to join the European Union? NONE
| Macedoinia | 20% |
| Montenegro | 20% |
| Serbia | 19% |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 16% |
| Albania | 15% |
| Turkey | 13% |
| Kosovo | 11% |
| None | 59% |
%
Do the French have an interest in ratifying free trade treaties: NO
| Male | 53% |
| Female | 51% |
| 16 and 24 years | 31% |
| 25 and 34 years | 38% |
| 35 and 44 years | 45% |
| 45 and 54 years | 60% |
| 55 and 64 years | 61% |
| 65 and 74 years | 71% |
| The European Union must retain the principle of its current organisation | 18% |
| The European Union must completely change its current organisation |
39% |
| The European Union must integrate the new countries which want to join |
13% |
| The European Union must facilitate the exiting countries which want to do so |
32% |
| The European Union must go further in its federalism |
20% |
| The European Union must go back to being a union of nations |
26% |
This wave of our European barometer confirms the doubts that the French feel about the benefits that the European Union in its current design would bring them.
Scepticism is strongest on the issue of national sovereignty, immigration control and economic and social issues.
The balance seems to be in favour of a return to the nations, to the control of the borders and strategic issues of each country making up Europe.
We will compare these trends with the results we will measure after the summer and especially after the Covid-19 crisis which began in early 2020 and which will have wreaked havoc with the political conceptions that seemed to have won.
Namely, the globalised economy, liberalism preventing states from intervening, the refusal of borders, European protection guaranteeing the security of all.