Over 80% of Poles positively about NATO and it’s highest score: report

82 percent of Poles perceive NATO membership positively. This is the highest result among 16 countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in which the research was conducted, according to the report of the American research center Pew Research Center.

In 2007, fewer Poles perceived their membership of the Alliance positively, only 72 percent.

The latest Pew Research Center report states that NATO is generally perceived positively by allied societies, despite persistent tensions between leaders of individual countries. This is how the Alliance sees 53 percent. people in the surveyed member countries, while 27 percent express a negative opinion.

The highest support for NATO is in Poland (82 percent) and the lowest in Turkey (21 percent). In the United States, it is 52 percent and in Germany 57 percent The study was also carried out in three non-member countries surveyed. Sweden and Ukraine have a positive view of the Alliance (63% and 53%, respectively), but only 16 percent of Russians say the same.

Despite very positive assessments of the Alliance among the Member States surveyed, there is widespread reluctance to fulfill the obligation to collective defense contained in art. 5 of the NATO founding treaty. When asked whether the country should use military force to defend NATO ally against a hypothetical Russian attack, 50 percent in 16 NATO member states said no, compared with 38% who said yes.

(PAP)