East Europeans are sceptical about Barack Obama's foreign policy. Photo by White House.

According to a recent survey, about 77% of the people in the entire European Union and Turkey support US President Barack Obama’s handling of international affairs, but in Eastern Europe, more than 60% of respondents say they’re sceptical about Obama’s foreign policy.

In Eastern Europe, more than 60 percent of respondents said they were sceptical about Obama’s foreign policy, especially regarding Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and the Middle East. Just over half of the respondents in that part of Europe said they saw the United States in a positive light, compared with 63 percent of West Europeans, the New York Times writes.

Only 25% of Central and East Europeans said they believed that relations between the United States and Europe had improved under Obama, compared with 43 percent of West Europeans.

The survey says the disparity between Eastern and Western Europe could be attributed to the fact that the George W. Bush administration embraced Eastern Europe by encouraging NATO’s enlargement in 2004 and that it took a more aggressive stance toward Russia.

The Bush administration also proposed placing the Pentagon’s antiballistic missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, a move that was strongly opposed by Russia and several West European nations. It was staunchly supported by most East European countries because they saw the shield as a defence against Russia, not missiles from Iran.

Obviously, East Europeans also know Russia better and they know that Russia is evil and dangerous, an undemocratic pariah as Soviet Union was, unlike many in Western Europe.

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