Awareness and media recall

68% of respondents recall having recently obtained news about the European Union via either press, internet, television or radio – with considerable variation across Member States, between 49% in France and 87% in Croatia and Romania. The share of respondents having recently read, seen or heard something about the EU increases slightly with age, men (76%) are more likely than women (60%) to reply this way, as do more highly educated respondents.

Media habits

For 71% of respondents, TV is still one of their most used media to access news in the past seven days, followed (at a distance) by online press and news platforms (42%). Radio and social media platforms (both 37%) are on shared third position followed by the written press, mentioned by 21% of respondents.

Compared to Parliament’s Media and News survey 2022, there is an increase of 11 percentage points in the overall share of respondents who use social media platforms to access news; smaller…