Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2003.4

Attitudes towards European Union and enlargement process. Fight against
fraud in economy and politics at EU level.

Topics: Current life satisfaction; life satisfaction compared with
five years ago; life satisfaction over the next five years; dynamics of
change in subjective well-being; expectations for the year; personal
situation; economic situation in the country; financial situation of
the household; employment situation in the country; personal job
situation; trust in institutions; trust in political institutions;
satisfaction with how democracy works; trust in other social
institutions; media use; news viewership on television; news
readership of daily newspapers; news listenership on the radio; trust
in the media; fears related to international terrorism and organised
crime; geopolitical orientation (attitudes to United States, role in
maintaining peace in the world, EU vs. US); actual and self-perceived
knowledge about EU; providing information about EU and sources;
preferred topics; preferred methods receiving information about EU;
interest in EU news; desired TV programmes about EU; national pride;
European pride; attachment to Europe; support for EU membership;
referendum; personal benefits and benefits for the country; spontaneous
image of EU; emotions related to the EU; feelings of EU were to be
scrapped; benefits of EU membership in ten years time; meaning of EU;
meaning of being a citizen of EU; fears related to the building of
Europe; expected and desired role for the EU in five years’ time;
opinion toward a certain number of key EU issues (teaching school
children about the EU, common defence policy, enlargement of the EU,
common foreign policy, EU being responsible for unhandled matters, one
single currency); support for a common foreign policy; joint EU
decision-making in foreign affairs; support for a European Foreign
Minister; support for a common defence and security policy; creation of
a European rapid military force; decision making on European defence
policy: national vs. European level; attitudes and knowledge about
enlargement and accession process; attitudes towards specific
statements regarding to the enlargement; time frame of EU accession;
feeling informed about enlargement and the accession process;
assessment of pre-accession funds; EU democracy; EU and other
supranational institutions; influence on EU decision-making; awareness
and role of the EU institutions and bodies; trust in EU institutions,
European Parliament and European Commission; EU constitution; role of
Commission and Commissioners, withdraw confidence from EC; direct
election of the President of EC; commissioners for each member country;
European tax; presidency; government instead of Commission; veto in
decision making; joint decision making; participation in EP elections;
willingness to vote; topics of the EP campaigns; awareness of financial
crimes in own country, in other candidate countries, countries of the
EU and elsewhere in the world; fear of types of crime: fraud, tax
evasion, money laundering, counterfeiting of goods; awareness of
financial crimes in own country, in other candidate countries, in EU
countries and elsewhere in the world; fear of financial crimes
(corruption, commercial fraud, fraud relating to the quality of food
and agricultural products, defrauding the state money laundering,
smuggling, circulation of fake bank-notes and coins in national
currency, wrongdoings in government and institutions, counterfeits of
goods, circulation of fake bank-notes and coins in Euro, work in the
black economy, defrauding the EU and its budget, wrongdoings in EU
institutions, hacking, pirated software, illegal data trading);
information activity of the media; level of information received from
media about financial crime; preferred information source about
fighting the EU budget being defrauded: TV, radio, daily newspapers,
short leaflet, that just gives an overview, other newspapers,
magazines, more detailed brochure, Internet, book giving you a complete
description, video tape, CD-ROM; fight against financial crimes: EU,
national government, police force, courts, the legal system, media,
taxation authorities, customs services, private auditing firms, local
or regional government; opinions about defrauding the EU budget.

Demography: Nationality; marital status; age; age at termination of
school training; educational level; size of household; occupational
status; employment in the public sector; position in the household;
size of community; church attendance; income of the household; party
preference; gender.