Over 90 percent of the Macedonian citizens want their country to join the European Union, as evidenced by the opinion poll conducted by the Institute for Sociological, Political and Legal Research. The poll, carried out as part of the campaign "Mention Macedonia for the Good", is based on a sample of 1,200 citizens of the Republic of Macedonia.

On the other hand, a phone poll of the Austrian Agency for Social Studies, revealed that 23 percent of the Austrians back Macedonia's accession to the EU, as 47 percent oppose it.
Around 51 percent of the Austrians support Croatia's accession to the EU, yet object to the admission of the other Balkan countries.