00:00The latest Eurobarometer survey, which was carried out last autumn, has taken the pulse of what concerns Europeans the most in today's world.
00:10Their two biggest worries are active wars near the EU's borders and disinformation.
00:15The survey was published on Wednesday by the European Parliament. Let's have a closer look.
00:19When it comes to security, a majority of Europeans say they are highly worried about active wars near the EU, terrorism, natural disasters worsened by climate change and cyber attacks from non-EU countries.
00:33What is striking is to see that it's across member states, so that maybe the Nordics or the Eastern countries were the first to flag those security and defence concerns in the past and now it's very much generalised.
00:47Citizens also expressed very high concern regarding disinformation, hate speech, misleading content created by AI, the protection of data online and threats to freedom of speech.
01:00We've seen for the last year a bit of attacks on multilateralism, on values, a rise of hate speech or disinformation online.
01:11We've seen AI tools more instrumentalised to seek to polarise or to distort a bit the information space.
01:19So those threats or those risks are probably very perceived by the citizens.
01:26Europeans want the European Parliament prioritised tackling inflation, followed by job creation and defence.
01:3262% of citizens view their country's EU membership positively, though the public's perception of the European Union has weakened since May 2025.
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