BRUSSELS, Aug 6 (WNM) - An official EU survey indictaes that Europeans are not worried about immigration in their home country. They rather care about employment, inflation and health issues.

Europeans see immigration as the top problem mostly for the EU and not for their home countries, the latest official survey shows. Even on this rather theoretical level the fears about immigration have been declining significantly over the past month. Still, Europeans hint to immigration when asked about what is the biggest challenge the EU is currently facing.

When it comes closer to reality, immigration fades as an urgent matter for the individual lives.

Hence the priorities are very different on a national level: Asked about the most important issues their own country is facing, unemployment ranks first, follwed by high prces and health. Climate change as a national task only comes in fourth, immigration which has been losing importance on a national level ranks fifth.

The result reflects the public debate in the EU, where immigration is still a hot political topic as the left blames the right of racism and the right attacks the left blaming them to sell out the continent. To ordinary people though immigration seem to matter much less whne it comes to theirown turf, the survey indicates.

The second biggest concern is climate change, ranking ahead of unemployment, the economy or terrorism, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey.

The data were gathered before the record-breaking temperatures across much of Europe last month and reports of the largest single-day loss of Greenlands ice sheet.

Ursula von der Leyen, the incoming President of the European Commission, has vowed to raise as much as 1 trillion euros ($1.12 trillion) in investment to fight climate change over the coming decade.