Legend:
- 1979 – EU9 – 9 Member States: Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, the UK, Denmark and Ireland.
- 1984 – EU10 – The 9 Member States + Greece in 1981.
- 1989 – EU12 – The 10 Member States + Spain and Portugal in 1986.
- 1994 – EU12 – 12 Member States.
- 1999 – EU15 – The 12 Member States + Austria, Sweden and Finland in 1995.
- 2004 – EU25 – The 15 Member States + Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus and Malta in 2004.
- 2009 – EU27 – The 25 Member States + Bulgaria and Romania in 2007.
Source: TNS opinion in collaboration with the EP.
Provisional 10 June 2009
1979 | 1981 | 1984 | 1987 | 1989 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1999 | 2004 | 2007 | 2009 | ||
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Belgium | BE | 91.36 | 92.09 | 90.73 | 90.66 | 91.05 | 90.81 | 90.39 | |||||
Denmark | DK | 47.82 | 52.38 | 46.17 | 52.92 | 50.46 | 47.89 | 59.52 | |||||
Germany | DE | 65.73 | 56.76 | 62.28 | 60.02 | 45.19 | 43 | 43.3 | |||||
Ireland | IE | 63.61 | 47.56 | 68.28 | 43.98 | 50.21 | 58.58 | 57.6 | |||||
France | FR | 60.71 | 56.72 | 48.8 | 52.71 | 46.76 | 42.76 | 40.48 | |||||
Italy | IT | 85.65 | 82.47 | 81.07 | 73.6 | 69.76 | 71.72 | 66.46 | |||||
Luxembourg | LU | 88.91 | 88.79 | 87.39 | 88.55 | 87.27 | 91.35 | 91 | |||||
Netherlands | NL | 58.12 | 50.88 | 47.48 | 35.69 | 30.02 | 39.26 | 36.5 | |||||
United Kingdom | UK | 32.35 | 32.57 | 36.37 | 36.43 | 24 | 38.52 | 34.48 | |||||
Greece | EL | 81.48 | 80.59 | 80.03 | 73.18 | 70.25 | 63.22 | 52.63 | |||||
Spain | ES | 68.52 | 54.71 | 59.14 | 63.05 | 45.14 | 46 | ||||||
Portugal | PT | 72.42 | 51.1 | 35.54 | 39.93 | 38.6 | 37.03 | ||||||
Sweden | SE | 41.63 | 38.84 | 37.85 | 43.8 | ||||||||
Austria | AT | 67.73 | 49.4 | 42.43 | 45.34 | ||||||||
Finland | FI | 57.6 | 30.14 | 39.43 | 40.3 | ||||||||
Czech Republic | CZ | 28.3 | 28.22 | ||||||||||
Estonia | EE | 26.83 | 43.9 | ||||||||||
Cyprus | CY | 72.5 | 59.4 | ||||||||||
Lithuania | LT | 48.38 | 20.92 | ||||||||||
Latvia | LV | 41.34 | 52.56 | ||||||||||
Hungary | HU | 38.5 | 36.29 | ||||||||||
Malta | MT | 82.39 | 78.81 | ||||||||||
Poland | PL | 20.87 | 24.53 | ||||||||||
Slovenia | SI | 28.35 | 28.25 | ||||||||||
Slovakia | SK | 16.97 | 19.64 | ||||||||||
Bulgaria | BG | 29.22 | 38.9 | ||||||||||
Romania | RO | 29.47 | 27.4 | ||||||||||
European Union | EU total | 61.99 | 58.98 | 58.41 | 56.67 | 49.51 | 45.47 | 43.2 |