Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: These excerpts from the polls recently released
finds that with the exception of the Turkish and Spanish respondents,
Europeans have a warmer feeling towards Israel than Palestinians. The polls
found that "Easing tensions in the Middle East" was consistently not seen as
a priority. While a plurality in almost every country said that Iran
acquiring nuclear weapons was likely to personally affect them, with the
exception of the USA, only a small portion of respondents believe policy
should be to maintain the option of using military force

Transatlantic Trends 2008 is a project of the German Marshall Fund of the
United States and the Compagnia di San Paolo (Italy) with additional support
from the Luso-American Foundation (Portugal), Fundación BBVA (Spain) and the
Tipping Point Foundation (Bulgaria).

For complete results:
www.transatlantictrends.org/trends/doc/2008_English_Top.pdf

Interviews were conducted between 04/06/2008 and 24/06/2008 by 13 TNS
opinion institutes.
The sample sizes amount to approximately 1000 respondents in each country.
. US
. FR = France
. GR = Germany
. UK= The United Kingdom
. IT = Italy
. NL = The Netherlands
. PL = Poland
. PT = Portugal
. SP = Spain
. SK = Slovakia
. TR = Turkey
. BG = Bulgaria
. RO = Romania

Q3 Next I'd like you to rate your feelings toward some countries,
institutions and people, with 100 meaning a very warm, favourable feeling, 0
meaning a very cold, unfavourable feeling, and 50 meaning not particularly
warm or cold. You can use any number from 0 to 100. If you have no opinion
or have never heard of that country or institution, please say so.

US FR GR UK IT NL PL PT SP SK TR BG RO
a)The United States
83 47 51 56 58 52 55 45 43 50 14 51 66
b)Russia
48 41 49 47 45 47 40 43 45 52 18 66 45
c)Israel
62 41 47 45 47 49 38 40 39 32 08 36 41
e)The Palestinians
36 40 39 45 43 44 37 37 46 25 44 28 38
j)Iran
25 24 29 33 23 30 31 27 31 22 32 24 33

The results below are in %

Q9a Which among these should be the top priority for the next American
president and European leaders? [READ OUT - RANDOMLY ROTATE - ONE ANSWER
ONLY]
US FR GR UK IT NL PL PT SP SK TR BG RO
International terrorism
26 18 13 22 25 21 25 17 28 33 47 38 35
Easing tensions in the Middle East
16 20 14 14 17 20 10 11 11 07 06 06 07

Q9b And which should be their second priority? [READ OUT - RANDOMLY ROTATE
ONE ANSWER ONLY]
US FR GR UK IT NL PL PT SP SK TR BG RO
International terrorism
17 19 17 16 19 18 19 18 22 23 22 23 17
Easing tensions in the Middle East
18 17 18 19 14 19 12 13 13 10 09 14 13

Q9ab Which among these should be the top priority for the next American
president and European leaders? And which should be their second priority?
[READ OUT - RANDOMLY ROTATE - TWO ANSWERS POSSIBLE FOR A TOTAL OF 200]

US FR GR UK IT NL PL PT SP SK TR BG RO
International terrorism
42 37 30 37 43 38 43 34 50 55 67 60 50
Easing tensions in the Middle East
33 36 32 32 31 39 22 23 24 17 14 19 19

Q15.1 And in the next 10 years, please tell me how likely you are to be
personally affected by each of the following threats.(M) INTERVIEWER: repeat
"How likely are you to be personally affected by." for every other item -
[READ OUT - RANDOMLY ROTATE - ONE ANSWER PER LINE]. INTERVIEWER: Emphasize
the "you" and "personally" when question is read out initially and then
every other time.

International terrorism
US FR GR UK IT NL PL PT SP SK TR BG RO
Likely
69 63 61 57 63 38 59 67 77 51 65 53 50
Not likely
28 36 38 40 36 60 35 28 23 41 20 40 42

Iran acquiring nuclear weapons
US FR GR UK IT NL PL PT SP SK TR BG RO
Likely
69 55 49 50 61 27 52 56 59 41 49 45 44
Not likely
27 43 47 45 37 69 36 35 39 47 31 39 44

Islamic fundamentalism (If respondent asks for explanation: the more radical
stream of Islam)
US FR GR UK IT NL PL PT SP SK TR BG RO
Likely
53 56 49 45 56 37 29 47 64 24 37 43 33
Not likely
39 42 48 48 42 61 58 41 34 56 40 41 49

Q17 Diplomatic efforts are underway to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear
weapons. Should these efforts fail, which of the following strategies would
you most favor? [READ OUT RANDOM ROTATE - ONE ANSWER ONLY]

US FR GR UK IT NL PL PT SP SK TR BG RO

Accept that Iran may develop nuclear weapons
06 02 04 08 03 07 05 03 04 04 23 04 03

Maintain the present level of diplomatic pressure on Iran
13 19 11 20 14 14 19 13 18 18 17 20 17

Increase diplomatic pressure on Iran but rule out the use of military force
27 54 56 38 59 45 47 62 53 56 12 47 46

Increase diplomatic pressure on Iran and maintain the option of using
military force
49 22 27 28 23 31 14 15 20 08 12 12 08

Q18.4 As you may know, some people are concerned about recent developments
in Russia. Those who are concerned give a number of different reasons. To
what extent are you concerned or not about each of the following items:
[READ OUT - ROTATE RANDOMNLY - ONE ANSWER PER ITEM]

Russia's role in providing weapons to countries in the Middle East
US FR GR UK IT NL PL PT SP SK TR BG RO
Concerned
84 81 83 81 82 75 71 79 69 50 35 47 57
Not concerned
13 18 15 15 16 21 20 14 29 37 22 34 30