Фото: Reform.news
Poland’s Public Opinion Research Center (CBOS) has published a report on Poles’ attitudes toward other nations and ethnic groups. According to a survey conducted in 2026, 46 percent of respondents expressed a negative attitude toward Belarusians.
A similar level of dislike was recorded toward Roma people. Poles expressed the most negative attitudes toward Russians, with 74 percent of respondents reporting antipathy.
This year, Italians top the ranking of the most liked nations: 58 percent of respondents expressed a positive attitude toward them, while only 7 percent reported dislike. High levels of sympathy were also recorded toward Czechs (55 percent), Slovaks (52 percent), Britons (49 percent), and Americans (47 percent). More than two-fifths of respondents expressed sympathy toward Croats (45 percent), Swedes, French, and Dutch (44 percent each), as well as Lithuanians (43 percent) and Hungarians (41 percent).
Sociologists note that for the third consecutive year, Poles’ attitudes have worsened toward nations for which sympathy had risen markedly immediately after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine—above all toward Americans, Britons, and Ukrainians.
The study was conducted by CBOS, a specialized sociological center that has been carrying out surveys representative of Polish society on key socio-political and economic issues since 1982. Since the early 1990s, the center has conducted regular monthly surveys, with results publicly available.