{"id":6700,"date":"2025-09-10T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6700"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:02:05","slug":"survey-shows-nearly-80-of-romanians-back-closer-ties-with-the-west-eu-and-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6700","title":{"rendered":"Survey shows nearly 80% of Romanians back closer ties with the West, EU and NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vast majority of Romanians believe their country should remain firmly aligned with the West through the European Union, the United States, and NATO, according to a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inscop.ro\/septembrie-2025-sondaj-de-opinie-inscop-research-politica-externa-si-digitalizare\/\" target=\"_blank\">opinion poll<\/a> released by INSCOP Research on Tuesday, September 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that 78.9% of respondents favor Romania\u2019s political and military orientation towards Western alliances, while only 7.8% said the country should look East, toward Russia and China. Another 13.3% did not respond or were undecided.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The poll, conducted between August 4 and 10 on a representative sample of 1,107 adults, also showed overwhelming support for EU and NATO membership. Some 83.3% of respondents evaluated EU membership positively, while 83.7% voiced the same about NATO. Negative views were expressed by 12.4% and 11.7%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Support for the West was strongest among voters of the National Liberal Party (PNL) and reformist Save Romania Union (USR), older citizens over 60, university graduates, and high-income earners. By contrast, skepticism toward Brussels and calls for a more nationalistic approach were more common among supporters of the Social Democrats (PSD) and the far-right AUR, lower-income groups, and state employees.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also found strong backing for asserting national interests within the EU framework: 84.6% of Romanians agreed that the country should defend its priorities even if this risks losing some benefits of membership. In addition, 65.7% said member states should have more decision-making power at the expense of EU institutions, while 24.4% disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Romania\u2019s role globally, 88% said the country should play a more active part on the international stage. At the same time, 38.1% felt EU membership limited national independence too much, though 52.4% rejected that view.<\/p>\n<p>The poll, commissioned by think tank Polithink, had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.95% and a confidence level of 95%.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">F<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">otografescu\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vast majority of Romanians believe their country should remain firmly aligned with the West through the European Union, the United States, and NATO, according to a new opinion poll released by INSCOP Research on Tuesday, September 9.\u00a0 The survey found that 78.9% of respondents favor Romania\u2019s political and military orientation towards Western alliances, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}