Abstract
The knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of the high school students on Croatia’s European Union (EU) accession event were omitted in numerous public opinion polls conducted since the 2013 accession. Therefore, the paper shows key benefits of Croatia’s EU accession and the recent attitudes of high school students about the meaning of this event for their future lives. Research methods include desktop analysis regarding previous researches of the population attitudes and a quantitative survey conducted in January 2017 on a sample of a total of 1944 school graduates who were interviewed on issues of knowledge, perception and attitude to the event of Croatia’s entrance and membership in the EU. The results point out that although Croatia acquires significant benefits from the EU accession, the very event is not recognized as being the key one by high school students. Considering that in many cases the youth opinion is the best indicator of overall social problems and considering the future programs and obligations as well as the role expected from the youth in implementation of these programs, the research findings on the perception of the event of Croatia’s accession to the EU are a field within which future policy activities are envisaged.
Highlights
Since Europe is undergoing considerable demographic, economic, cultural and sociopolitical change, the national citizenship identities have been challenged by the simultaneous processes of European integration and the migration of people into and across Europe. (Faas 2007)
Assuming the duration of activity related to specific knowledge, the PERT method, critical path method and z-score indicate that the model in which knowledge transfer activities are structured would immediately build on adequate fundamental knowledge, the existing level of knowledge would increase by 56.75% in the case of knowledge about the European Union (EU), and by 85.83% in the case of attitudes towards the event of Croatia’s accession to the EU and its fully-fledged membership
Through the event of the EU accession and its EU membership, Croatia has made significant strides in economic and social fields, there still remains some space for the expansion of the knowledge of the very event, its advantages as well as challenges
Summary
Since Europe is undergoing considerable demographic, economic, cultural and sociopolitical change, the national citizenship identities have been challenged by the simultaneous processes of European integration and the migration of people into and across Europe. (Faas 2007). Before 2013, total share of these exports within Croatian GDP was below 40% (Eurostat 2020d), and in 2017 the ratio reached 51.5% of GDP, breaking the 50% threshold for the first time in history (European Commission 2018). These figures clearly manifest the benefits of the EU’s single market for the Croatian economy. As an EU member, Croatia’s economic growth was based on exports of goods and services and domestic consumption, in stark contrast to the pre-accession period (Eurostat 2020e)
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