"The fact that people are not well-informed about the EU is well documented. In the new member states taken as a whole, a Eurobarometer survey showed that at the time of the referenda (Autumn 2003) 60% of the population felt not very well or not at all informed about the enlargement process, while 56% said the same for their own country’s accession process. In the pre-existing member states (EU15), on the eve of enlargement 69% of the population said they were not very well or not at all informed about enlargement. Eurobarometer also found that less than a third of people in the EU as a whole (EU25) knew in 2003 that the Convention on the Future of Europe was producing a draft Constitutional Treaty, and in 2004 - as preparations for national ratifi cation were under way - that only a similarly low proportion could say they felt well or rather well informed about the draft Constitution. These proportions are very close to the proportion of people who say they feel informed about the EU. In Spring 2005 Eurobarometer asked “how much do you feel you know about the EU, its policies, its institutions?” with each respondent giving a self assessment on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high). Th e average was 4.4, with only 29% claiming to be at least fairly well informed (scale 6 to 10)." (Summary, page 5)