Is the EU ensuring a fair green transition? 2022

The countries in the European Union with the greatest proportion of their citizens agreeing that the EU is doing enough to ensure that the transition to a green economy and energy system is fair are Malta, Cyprus, and Poland. On the other hand, France, Greece, and Germany have the greatest share of citizens responding that the EU is not doing enough.

The EU's premier climate policy at the current moment is the European Green Deal, a set of investment programs which seek to encourage economic activity through improving infrastructure and providing grants for private actors to create green technologies in Europe. In light of the United States' more extensive green stimulus package, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), however, many commentators have begun to view the EU's plans as being insufficient to manage a fair, equitable, and effective transition to a green economy and society.

Opinion of citizens in the European Union on whether the EU is doing enough to ensure that the green transition is fair in 2022

Characteristic	Totally agree	Tend to agree	Don't know	Tend to disagree	Totally disagree
Malta	28%	50%	2%	17%	3%
Cyprus	22%	47%	5%	19%	7%
Poland	18%	50%	5%	23%	4%
Hungary	16%	49%	4%	26%	5%
Finland	16%	48%	4%	25%	7%
Latvia	15%	49%	6%	22%	8%
Italy	26%	38%	4%	27%	5%
Romania	17%	40%	6%	31%	6%
Belgium	13%	44%	2%	31%	10%
Luxembourg	15%	41%	6%	25%	13%
Estonia	13%	42%	16%	24%	5%
Denmark	13%	42%	6%	31%	8%
Croatia	16%	39%	3%	29%	13%
Sweden	12%	42%	2%	29%	15%
Ireland	12%	42%	11%	29%	6%
Czechia	16%	37%	8%	28%	11%
Lithuania	10%	41%	15%	24%	10%
EU average	14%	36%	7%	31%	12%
Austria	13%	37%	6%	28%	16%
Slovenia	19%	31%	2%	38%	10%
Netherlands	11%	37%	5%	35%	12%
Portugal	12%	35%	12%	32%	9%
Spain	15%	31%	10%	27%	17%
Bulgaria	13%	32%	21%	18%	16%
Slovakia	9%	33%	13%	26%	19%
Germany	9%	33%	5%	36%	17%
Greece	8%	33%	8%	31%	20%
France	9%	28%	10%	37%	16%