Netherlands: attitudes towards EU membership 1996-2018

In 2018, a sizable share of people surveyed in the Netherlands indicated that they saw EU membership as a positive thing. 65 percent of survey respondents thought that it is a good thing that the Netherlands is a member of the European Union. Although this figure marked a ten percent decrease in comparison to 1996, it was also an increase of roughly ten percent compared to 2015, when Dutch confidence in EU membership dropped to approximately 55 percent.

In general, do you think it is good or bad that the Netherlands is a member of the European Union?*

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Release date

May 2019

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Region

Netherlands

Survey time period

1996 to 2017/2018

Number of respondents

1,000 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Supplementary notes

* The question was phrased by the source as follows: "Vindt u het in het algemeen gesproken, een goede of slechte zaak dat Nederland lid is van de Europese Unie of vindt u het noch goed noch slecht?" (English: "In general, do you think it is good or bad that the Netherlands is a member of the European Union?")

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