{"id":8968,"date":"2021-06-10T08:59:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T13:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/nato-continues-to-be-seen-in-a-favorable-light-by-people-in-member-states\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:56:49","slug":"nato-continues-to-be-seen-in-a-favorable-light-by-people-in-member-states","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2021\/06\/10\/nato-continues-to-be-seen-in-a-favorable-light-by-people-in-member-states\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO continues to be seen in a favorable light by people in member states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As leaders across Europe and North America gather next week for the 2021 NATO summit<\/a>, most across the 10 member states included in a new Pew Research Center survey see the political and military alliance in a positive light. Moreover, positive views of NATO are at or near all-time highs across several member states. Opinions among Americans, who contribute the most<\/a> to NATO\u2019s annual budget, are at 61% favorable, the same as the overall median across the NATO states surveyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In nine of the nations surveyed in 2021, about half or more hold a favorable opinion of the alliance. Two-thirds or more of adults in Italy, the Netherlands and Canada have a positive opinion of NATO, along with about six-in-ten or more in the United Kingdom, the United States, NATO\u2019s home base of Belgium, and Germany. But in Greece, only 38% see NATO favorably. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In nonmember Sweden, 70% have a positive opinion of the more than 70-year-old alliance. Except in Greece, in no country surveyed do more than about a third have a negative view of NATO, although in many countries around one-in-ten hold no opinion of the multilateral organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favorable opinions of NATO have generally held steady across most countries surveyed over the past year. And in many countries, positive attitudes toward NATO are at or near all-time highs since this question was first asked in 2009, including in Italy and the UK. Italy is the only NATO country surveyed in which positive views of the organization have increased significantly since the summer of 2020 (up 13 percentage points).<\/p>\n\n\n

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