Albania among the most optimist countries for new year
More pessimism recorded in Bosnia and Herzegovina
31 December, 17:00According to the Gallup International's 42nd Annual Global End of Year Survey, 71 per cent of citizens in Albania are optimists for 2019, while only 10% thing that the new year will be worse than 2018. Among the optimist countries in the Balkans also Kosovo, with 51% of respondents convinced that the new year will be, as far as they are concerned, better than 2018, while a 14% declared themselves as pessimists. Also in Macedonia optimism (48%) prevails over pessimisms for the near future (18%), and in Romania (46% of optimists against 25% of pessimists). Quite divided the opinions in Serbia, where the Gallup survey registered a 31% of optimists and a 33% of pessimists, and in Bulgaria (22% of optimists, 30% of pessimists).
On the opposite side of the scale, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which recorded a huge percentage of pessimists (41%) a lower share of optimists (22%). The survey revealed also that in Albania 60% of the respondents are expecting that 2019 will be for the world a more peaceful year than 2018; 45% of respondents from Romania think the same, as well as 43% in Macedonia, 40% in Kosovo, 21% in Serbia, 19% in Bosnia, 15% in Bulgaria. (ANSA).