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20 years in the EU : national report - Study

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Finland joined the European Union on 1 January 1995 alongside Austria and Sweden in the fourth round of EU enlargement, bringing the number of Member States at the time to 15. These three countries were the first new countries to join the EU since the end of the Cold War. This survey was commissioned to understand how people in these three countries view the EU and the impact of EU membership, twenty years after accession. This report looks specifically at the results from Finland. There is an accompanying report covering all three countries combined, as well as individual reports for Austria... and Sweden. The questionnaire covered people’s associations with Europe, their sense of European identity, the nature of the impact of EU membership on national life, people's views on the priorities for the new European Commission and one country-specific question for each of the three Member States. This survey was carried out by TNS Political & Social network in Austria, Finland and Sweden between the 24th of November and the 3rd of December 2014. Some 3.000 respondents from different social and demographic groups were interviewed online in their mother tongue on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Communication. The methodology used is that of Eurobarometer surveys as carried out by the Directorate-General for Communication (“Strategy, Corporate Communication Actions and Eurobarometer” Unit). A technical note on the manner in which interviews were conducted by the Institutes within the TNS Political & Social network is appended as an annex to this report. Also included are the interview methods and confidence intervals.