Czechs blame victims of violence twice as often as the rest of Europe
Thirty-two per cent of Czechs believe that a woman who was drunk is at least partly to blame for sexual violence, twice the European Union average. We took the statements from a bingo card circulating on social media and set them against data, research and the law.
10/21/2026
In Slovakia, 40 per cent blame Russia for the war, in Poland 85. The Kremlin does best in the EU where people are least resilient to disinformation
Where society is least resilient to disinformation according to the Media Literacy Index 2026, people hold the most favourable view of Russia according to Eurobarometer. Two thirds of Czechs support sanctions against Russia, but fewer than a third support weapons for Ukraine. In Slovakia, roughly half of people adopt the Kremlin's account of the war, yet only a fifth to a quarter want to leave the European Union and NATO.
9/28/2026