Focus on Spain European Sovereignty Ipsos survey on behalf of the Fondation Jean-Jaurès and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of the Fondation Jean-Jaurès and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Some 8,000 people were interviewed over the internet via Ip­sos’ Access Panel between 28 December 2020 and 8 Jan­uary 2021, making up eight samples of 1,000 persons representative of the national population of persons aged 18 and over in France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Po­land, Romania, Spain and Sweden. The sampling was carried out in accordance with the quota method(sex, age, occupation, rural/urban location, region). This sum­mary presents the results on Spain. SOVEREIGNTY? AN AMBIGUOUS IDEA FOR MOST SPANIARDS Is this because Spain is a constitutional monarchy? Whenever Spaniards are asked what comes into their minds when they hear the term»sovereignty« they seem a little awkward: a mixture of»neither positive nor negative«(44 % of respons­es),»neither outdated nor modern«(43 %),»neither right­wing nor left-wing«(56 %) … In each instance, a large major­ity(whether relative or not) of respondents replies»neither … nor«. On other issues, opinions are divided: 28 % of Spaniards have a»rather positive« view of sovereignty, as against 23 % who take the contrary view. This lags a long way behind the high­est scores registered in the survey, in Germany(73 % answer­ing»rather positive«) or in Poland(69 %), and instead is simi­lar to the lowest levels, like those registered in France(29 % positive) and Italy(21 %). The 60 % of positive associations re­corded in Romania, however, prevents us from inferring a lin­guistic bias specific to Latin countries. Furthermore, over one in three Spaniards regard the term »sovereignty« as»outdated«(38 %), higher than the Europe­an average(32 %). Only 13 % consider it, by contrast, to be »modern«, one of the lowest scores, along with those regis­tered in France(12 %) and Italy(10 %). As for political orien­tation, while there is no majority view, one in four Spaniards (25 %) associate sovereignty with»the right«, as against 12 % who associate it with»the left«. While this is very much a mi­nority view, these 12 % of respondents are relatively atypical by comparison with the figures recorded in the other coun­tries: nowhere else is 10 % achieved on this item, with a Euro­pean average of only 6 %. When asked to select two words from a list of ten that one might associate with sovereignty, Spaniards choose»power« (mentioned by 54 %) and»nationalism«(43 %), two concepts that are not necessarily constructive in relation to the Europe­an project, and which also take top billing in France and Italy. Some way below this are mentions of»freedom«(27 %),»in­dependence«(20 %) and»self-determination«(again 20 %). Finally, when asked about the associations with sovereignty that come to mind in relation to particular concepts rather