Abstract
This article presents the results of an empirical study pertaining to popular support for European integration by the Polish population. On the basis of a survey conducted in 1995 on a national sample of men and women, two extreme groups were distinguished: Euro-enthusiasts and Euro-skeptics. Both groups were reinterviewed in 1997. Analysis of the panel data focuses on how many people change their opinions and beliefs pertaining to European integration, whatfactors influence such a change, and how this change is related to other opinions and beliefs. The results show that the transition from the category of Euro-skeptics to the category of Euro-enthusiasts is more frequent than that in the opposite direction. The temporal stability of Euro-enthusiasm is statistically determined by exposure to the West, a belief that present Poland is a better country in which to live than Poland in the past, and right-wing political self-identification. This transition is significantly correlated with political orientations supportive of political strategies for the integration of Poland with the European Union.
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