According to the opinion poll conducted among 1,000 respondents in Croatia from 27 October to 12 November, 24% of those polled said Croatia's admission to EU would be a good thing for their country, 37% of the respondents said it would be bad, and 35% said it would be neither a good nor a bad thing.

Only Latvians whose country was hit the hardest by the latest economic crisis, expressed more scepticism than Croatians. In the study, only 23% percent of those polled in Latvia said their country had benefited from being a member of the European bloc.

In the 27-strong EU on average, 53% of those polled feel that it is good that their countries are in the EU.

The highest number of EU membership proponents are in Luxembourg and the Netherlands with 74% in each of them. They are followed by Ireland (72%) and Slovakia (68%).

Euroscepticism seems to prevail in Britain with 30% of those polled being in favour of their country's EU membership.

In Hungary, 34 percent of the respondents said EU membership was a good thing for the country

As regards the biggest concerns their country is faced with, 59% of the Croatian respondents cited crime, and 50% cited unemployment.

In EU members, unemployment is the main concern of Europeans for their country (51%), and 40% cited the economic situation.

Crime, inflation and price rise share third and fourth place in the list of the biggest concerns for citizens in EU countries.