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EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - A minority of around one third of Europeans believes Turkey and Ukraine will be members of the EU by 2020, a new German study has revealed. But EU citizens believe that by that time, the bloc will have a new treaty. An opinion poll released on Wednesday (20 September) by the Bertelsmann Foundation, a German think tank, showed that 37 percent of those surveyed across the EU believe Turkey will have joined the EU in 2020.Almost two thirds of respondents said they believe the EU will have more than 27 member states by the end of the second decade of this century – suggesting that Europeans are more confident about Western Balkan states acceding at some point.
Surprisingly, the French and the Dutch, who rejected the constitution in popular referendums last year, showed above-average optimism, with clear majorities of 57 percent and 50 percent respectively predicting the passage of a constitutional text.
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