1. 1 Dr Srbobran Branković: SERBIAN PUBLIC ON EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATIONS Savski trg 7, Belgrade Serbia, FR Yugoslavia Tel. +38111 36-13-230, 642-042, Fax: 645-490, 659-920; E-mail: medium @eunet.yu; www.mediumindex.co.yu Public Opinion, Market and Media Research Company GALLUP INTERNATIONAL

2. 2 TOPICS: Rating of Western countries and institutions of international community – recent surveys Acceptance of cooperation with the West Comparison between two indices Attitudes towards regional cooperation General context: Euro-Atlantic integrations and other (internal) political issues

3. 3 “For each country, please tell me whether your opinion of it is favorable or unfavorable ?”(end of April ’03)

4. 4 OPINION ON THE WEST BEFORE AND AFTER THE ASSASSINATION

5. 5 COOPERATION WITH THE WEST: CLOSER ECONOMIC COOPERATION

6. 6 COOPERATION WITH THE WEST: MEMBERSHIP IN THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE

7. 7 COOPERATION WITH THE WEST: TO WORK TOWARDS INCLUSION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

8. 8 MILITARY INTEGRATION: PARTNERSHIP FOR PEACE

9. 9 MILITARY INTEGRATION: TO JOIN NATO

10. 10 ATTITUDES TOWARDS COOPERATION IN CONTEXT OF OTHER POLITICAL ISSUES Our company just has developed monthly based analysis of political and economic stability in the country The analysis is based on 8 topics, most relevant for political and economic stability: social dissatisfaction, confidence in institutions, protest readiness, (MIS)TRUST IN THE WEST AND THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, inter-ethnic tensions, acceptance of regional cooperation, level of social (left) radicalism

11. 11 NEW METHODOLOGY: COLLECTIVE INDICES All 8 topics have been analysed using large number of individual variables (questions) findings on individual countries and institutions rating have been summarized in joint index 10-rate indices: 10 – ideal situation when everybody has extremely unfavorable opinion on every country and institution; 0 - nobody has unfavorable opinion The results of contrasting scales may be directly compared

12. 12 COMPARITION BETWEEN NONCONFIDENCE AND RESISTANCE TO COOPERATION

13. 13 CONCLUSION Citizens of SMN accept co-operation with the West Logic, which was unimaginable in Milosevic's time: partners in international relations don't need to love each other to be able to co-operate Readiness for military cooperation significantly lower

14. 14 INDEX OF OPPOSITION TO REGIONAL COOPERATION

15. 15 ACCEPTENCE OF EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATIONS: GENERAL CONTEXT

16. 16 NEW POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES Government anti-crime action has significantly changed political agenda in Serbia More and more people realize that “common” criminal and war criminal structures are mutually connected. In fact they are the same. Patriotic phraseology and anti-West propaganda is strongly compromised Still: the promotion of EURO-ATLANTIC ideas in SMN is much more difficult than in other countries of this region and Eastern Europe